overget
verbEtymology From Middle English overgeten; equivalent to over- + get. Cognate with Scots overget (“to overtake”). Compare Old English oferġietan (“to forget, disregard, neglect”).
1
Ambitransitive To get more than expected or due.
- 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.1885, Edmund B. Ivatts, Railway management at stations:
2
Archaic To attain, reach; pass, overtake; come up with; get hold of, catch.
3
Archaic To get beyond; get over; recover from.
- Antonyms
- underget