"overpayment" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
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        "3": "payment",
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      "expansion": "over- + payment",
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  "etymology_text": "From over- + payment.",
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    {
      "form": "overpayments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The employer sued to recover overpayment of wages.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 29, Tami Luhby, “Social Security slashes amount of overpayments beneficiaries must pay back”, in CNN:",
          "text": "The Social Security Administration announced Friday that it will no longer automatically withhold 100% of the overpayment amount from recipients’ monthly benefits. Instead, it will collect 10% – or $10, whichever is greater – to recover the overpayment. […] The Social Security Administration recovered more than $4.9 billion in overpayments in fiscal year 2023 but still ended the year with a total balance of $23 billion in uncollected payments.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Payment exceeding the amount actually due."
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        {
          "word": "underpayment"
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        {
          "word": "overpay"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "surpaye"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "trop-perçu"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Überzahlung"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Überbezahlung"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
          "word": "túlfizetés"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nadpłata"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "overpayment"
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      "word": "be behind with something"
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  "etymology_text": "From over- + payment.",
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      "word": "underpayment"
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      "word": "overpay"
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          "text": "The Social Security Administration announced Friday that it will no longer automatically withhold 100% of the overpayment amount from recipients’ monthly benefits. Instead, it will collect 10% – or $10, whichever is greater – to recover the overpayment. […] The Social Security Administration recovered more than $4.9 billion in overpayments in fiscal year 2023 but still ended the year with a total balance of $23 billion in uncollected payments.",
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        "Payment exceeding the amount actually due."
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "surpaye"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
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      "word": "trop-perçu"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Überzahlung"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Überbezahlung"
    },
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
      "word": "túlfizetés"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "payment exceeding the amount actually due",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "nadpłata"
    }
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  "word": "overpayment"
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