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Undertime

//ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities. informal, uncountable
  2. 2
    The later part of the day; afternoon; undertide. obsolete

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required. transitive
  2. 2
    To underexpose. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From under- + time.

Etymology 2

From under- + time, based on overtime.

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