undertime

verb, noun — 4 senses

undertime

verb

/ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/

Etymology From under- + time.

1

To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.

2

Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography To underexpose.

undertime

noun

/ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/

Etymology From under- + time, based on overtime.

1

Informal The time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities.

undertime

noun

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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