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malus¹
- /ˈmeɪ.ləs/
- /ˈmɑː.ləs/
- /ˈmæ.ləs/
Where it comes from
From Latin malus, by analogy with bonus (“additional compensation”). Doublet of mal.
noun maluses · mali
- The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance. When bank fired the loan originator, they recovered the last two years of her bonuses under the malus clause in her contract.
- A penalty or negative thing. The driver game has a game screen with less number of properties and representations (see Fig. 3(a)). […] If the user completes a level within the allocated time, then the user gets a bonus and will be advanced to another level[,] and if user is unable to complete a level, then a malus is provided a
Similar: clawback
malus²
Where it comes from
From Latin mālus and translingual Malus.
noun maluses
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A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).
It leads to a certain extent to an evergreen type Docynia which is distributed in the Himalayas and western China and whose magnificence of bloom I learned to know on my travels in Yunnan; it is distinct from genuine maluses.
Similar: apple
malus³
noun
- plural of malu
Thesaurus
noun
Similar: clawback
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