0 to pay someone too much:
1 to make bigger payments than originally agreed when paying back a loan, in order to reduce the cost of the loan:
2 to pay more than is necessary or more than the value of something:
3 to pay someone too much:
overpay sb by $50/10% etc I felt I should tell my boss she'd overpaid me by $100.
overpay sb for sth He claimed the deal would overpay the company for its electrical transmission grid.
To be overpaid is in this case rather less than to be paid.
Because costs in these two settings are so different, paying only one price will inevitably overpay for one setting and underpay for the other.
Rarely do translators feel that they are overpaid.
The cost of recovery can be recovered, in addition to the overpaid benefit.
That means that, when the relief is worked out, the rebate will have been overpaid.
It is money that has been overpaid in taxation and that the unemployed are entitled to have repaid.
Surely senior banisters should not be so overpaid and should not receive hundreds of thousands of pounds through legal aid work.
The amount overpaid has been, by direction of the sub-sheriff, refunded to the defendants.