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undertime

verb
/ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m//ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/

Etymology

From under- + time, based on overtime.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. prefixed as undertime — “under + time”

Definitions

  1. To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.

  2. To underexpose.

  3. The time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The later part of the day

      The later part of the day; afternoon; undertide.

      • He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA