underget

To get less than expected or due.

Verb

  1. To get less 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:
    • There Is a Limit to Over-Paying and Undergetting - 1920, Financial World, volume 33, page 8:
    • Those that underpay, underget. - 1923, Charles Vickers, Metals and their alloys:

    Antonyms: overget

Origin

From under- + get. Compare Middle English underyeten (“to comprehend, perceive”), from Old English underġietan (“to understand, perceive, know”).

Forms

undergets undergetting undergot undergotten