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underget en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From under- + get. Compare Middle English underyeten (“to comprehend, perceive”), from Old English underġietan (“to understand, perceive, know”).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To get less than expected or due.
   • There Is a Limit to Over-Paying and Undergetting 1920, Financial World, volume 33, page 8:
   • Those that underpay, underget. 1923, Charles Vickers, Metals and their alloys:
   • Some companies hold their clerks responsible to account for the actual amount of the fares on tickets sold, and ignore the question of overgot and undergot money. 1885, Edmund B. Ivatts, Railway management at stations:

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overget