underget

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verb

To get less than expected or due.

Opposite
overget
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Meanings

verbunderget (third-person singular simple present undergets, present participle undergetting, simple past undergot, past participle undergot or undergotten)

present singular third person undergets · participle present undergetting · past undergot · participle past undergot · participle past undergotten

  1. ambitransitiverareTo get less than expected or due.

    Those that underpay, underget.

    1923, Charles Vickers, Metals and their alloys
    2 more examples

    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

    Antonyms: overget

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo get less than expected or due.

Opposite
overget

Origin

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

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APA

underget. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underget

MLA

“underget.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underget. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “underget,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underget.

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