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under-time

under-time is the alternative form of undertime.

Meaning of undertime

Noun (1)

undertime (uncountable)

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

Noun (2)

undertime

  1. (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

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Forms of under-time

Noun
pluralunder-times
Verb
third-person singular presentunder-times
present participleunder-timing
past participleunder-timed
pastunder-timed

Questions about under-time

What is under-time the alternative form of?
Under-time is the alternative form of undertime.

Words near under-time in the dictionary

  1. under-stewards
  2. under-tenant
  3. under-tenants
  4. under-the-counter
  5. under-the-table
  6. under-time
  7. under-timed
  8. under-times
  9. under-timing
  10. under-trial
  11. under-trials

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