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Definition of behindhand adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

behindhand

adjective

NAmE//bɪˈhaɪndhænd//

[not before noun] behindhand (with/in something)

late in doing something or in paying money that is owed They were behindhand in settling their debts.

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