Meaning of BEHINDHAND
| Pronunciation: | | bi'hInd`hand
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- [adv] in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills"
- [adj] behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"
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| | Definition: | | \Be*hind"hand`\, adv. & a. [Behind + hand.]
1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have
exceeded the receipt of funds.
2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is
seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been
accomplished; not equally forward with some other person
or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand
in studies or in work.
In this also [dress] the country are very much
behindhand. --Addison.
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| | Related Terms: | | after time, ahead of time, anachronistic, antedated, arrested, back, backward, beforehand, behind, behind time, belated, belatedly, blocked, careless, dated, deep into, defaulting, delayed, delayed-action, delinquent, derelict, detained, disregardful, early, far on, foredated, held up, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance, in arrear, in arrears, jammed, late, latish, lax, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, moratory, neglectful, never on time, none too soon, nonpaying, obstructed, out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due, postdated, prochronistic, regardless, remiss, retarded, slack, slow, stopped, tardy, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unprogressive, unpunctual, unready, unseasonable, untimely |
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