Usually means: Late or delayed in progress.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. behindhand: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. behindhand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. behindhand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. behindhand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. behindhand: Vocabulary.com
  6. behindhand: Wordnik
  7. behindhand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. behindhand: Wiktionary
  9. behindhand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. behindhand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. behindhand: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. behindhand: Dictionary.com
  13. Behindhand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. behindhand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. behindhand: Rhymezone
  16. Behindhand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. behindhand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. behindhand: Free Dictionary
  19. behindhand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. behindhand: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behindhand: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behindhand: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behindhand: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (archaic, of a person) Late, tardy, overdue, behind (in accomplishing a task, etc.).
adjective:  (archaic, of a task or the object of a task) Not at the expected point of completion.
adjective:  (archaic) Behind (someone or something moving, a trend, etc.), lagging behind, not keeping up.
adjective:  (archaic) Behind in paying a debt; in arrears.
adjective:  (archaic) Not having enough of, lacking (in something).
adjective:  (dated) Inferior, less advanced (compared with someone in something).
adverb:  (archaic) Belatedly, tardily.
adverb:  (archaic) In debt, or in arrears.

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