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[syn: behind, behindhand, in arrears]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Behindhand \Be*hind"hand`\, adv. & a. [Behind + hand.]
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1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have
exceeded the receipt of funds.
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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.
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In this also [dress] the country are very much
behindhand. --Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
behindhand
adv 1: 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" [syn: behind, behindhand, in arrears]
adj 1: behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "behindhand":
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out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due,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