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undertime en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

(UK)
/ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/
(US)

Etymology

From under- + time.

Meanings

(transitive) To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.
(transitive) To underexpose.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
undertiming	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
undertimed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
undertimed	Tense=Past		lexicographic
undertimes	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
under-time		alternative	lexicographic

undertime en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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/ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/

Etymology

From under- + time, based on overtime.

Meanings

(informal, uncountable) The time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
under-time		alternative	lexicographic

undertime en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

(UK)
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/ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/

Meanings

(obsolete) 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. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
under-time		alternative	lexicographic