overpay
verb (used with object)
to pay more than (an amount due).
overpaid
Example Sentences
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Social Security overpaid my 82-year-old mother by $20,000.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
A few months ago, she got a letter from Social Security saying she’d been overpaid by roughly $20,000.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The majority, 335 veterans, were overpaid a total of £5.1m as a result of incorrect National Insurance calculations.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Twelve years ago, Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers for $2 billion and admitted he willingly overpaid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Not that he is their superior, but that he seems to me to have fallen short of his due as much as they, in various ways, have been overpaid, in praise, confidence, and fame.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
