undertime

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Pronunciation

  • (verb)
    • IPA(key): /ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/
      • (US) /ˌʌn.dɚˈtaɪ̯m/
      • (UK) /ˌʌn.dəˈtaɪ̯m/
  • (nouns)
    • IPA(key): /ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/
      • (US) /ˈʌn.dɚˌtaɪ̯m/
      • (UK) /ˈʌn.dəˌtaɪ̯m/
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  • Hyphenation: un‧der‧time
  • Rhymes: -aɪm, -ʌndə(ɹ)taɪm

Etymology 1

From under- +‎ time.

Verb

undertime (third-person singular simple present undertimes, present participle undertiming, simple past and past participle undertimed)

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

Etymology 2

From under- +‎ time, based on overtime.

Noun

undertime (uncountable)

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

Etymology 3

Noun

undertime

  1. (obsolete) The later part of the day; afternoon; undertide.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:
      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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