behindhand : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: behindhand	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for behindhand
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
behindhand 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" Synonym(s): behind, behindhand, in arrears adj behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Behindhand \Behind"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.