English Dictionary

malus

/ˈmeɪ.ləs/

noun

(business) 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.

The malus tree in my backyard is full of delicious apples.

意味（1）

(business) 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.

意味（2）

(rare) 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.