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Definition of Overpaying
1. overpay [v] - See also: overpay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpaying
Literary usage of Overpaying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-five Years: Commencing with the Battle of by Ebenezer Smith Thomas (1840)
"... and was at my credit, overpaying the balance I had left against me, a hundred
and fifty pounds. This circumstance gave me an unlimited credit forever ..."
2. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And by John Condie Stewart Sandeman, Scotland Courts (1905)
"Minister—Stipend—Locality—overpaying and Underpaying Heritor. ... D., as an
overpaying heritor, then raised an action against B. and M. as underpaying ..."
3. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston (1903)
"... (2) that the city's overpaying Davis and extending the time of performance of
his contract did not release the sureties from the contract to pay Davis' ..."
4. Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook (1903)
"In the season overpaying is more than ever necessary, while hiring ... Some people
make a practice of only overpaying the cabman when, like John Gilpin, ..."
5. Cases on the Law of Contracts by George Purcell Costigan (1921)
"Then how can it be said that any act of the school district in overpaying Livers
and Pullman can release them or their sureties from their contract with the ..."
6. Medicare+Choice Program After One Year: Hearing Before the Committee on edited by Michael Bilirakis (1998)
"As I alluded to in my opening statement, there is ample evidence that Medicare
has been overpaying risk contractors by literally billions and billions of ..."
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