behindhand Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite behind schedule
    • was behindhand with the rent
  2. adverb in debt
    in arrears; behind.
    • he fell behind with his mortgage payments
    • a month behind in the rent
    • a company that has been run behindhand for years
    • in arrears with their utility bills

WordNet

Be*hind"hand` adverb & adjective
Etymology
Behind + hand.
Definitions
  1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
  2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work.
    In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.

Webster 1913