underget

English

Etymology

From under- + get.

Verb

underget (third-person singular simple present undergets, present participle undergetting, simple past undergot, past participle undergot or undergotten)

  1. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To get less than expected or due.
    • 1885, Edmund B. Ivatts, Railway management at stations:
      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.
    • 1920, Financial World, volume 33, page 8:
      There Is a Limit to Over-Paying and Undergetting
    • 1923, Charles Vickers, Metals and their alloys:
      Those that underpay, underget.
    Antonym: overget
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