malus means 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. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
malus is pronounced /ˈmeɪ.ləs/.
noun
- 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 and the user gets retained in the same level.”
- 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.”