Meaning of malus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).
3. A penalty or negative thing.
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Examples

“When bank fired the loan originator, they recovered the last⟳ two years of her bonuses under the malus clause in her contract.”

“The existence of boni and mali for the different risks can be interpreted through the sign⟳ of estimated covariances.”

“If the boni and mali do not depend⟳ on the frequency of claims, the average bonus-malus coefficient increases with the frequency.”

“Bidders with inferior quality, higher transport⟳ costs or additional switching costs receive⟳ a Malus which decreases their bid automatically to incorporate the disadvantages. Bonus Malus Auctions are used by about 50% of all companies.”

“Akramkhanov et al. (2010) also suggested a system of boni and mali on taxes to support⟳ the implementation of measures to achieve⟳ both water saving and salinity control⟳ (Table 3.3.1).”

“If both the estimated payment- and checking-rate is not above a threshold in a district, the contracted party will receive⟳ a malus for that district, and no bonus for any other district.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Malus ‘Dartmouth’ is a variety of M. pumila, the wild crab-apple, and is only one of the several maluses which offer⟳ a wider choice than the commonly planted ‘John Downie,’ lemoinei and eleyi.”

“In gardens which are rather open⟳ and exposed, the ornamental crabs or maluses are generally less satisfactory than the cherries as flowering trees.”

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