Be-hind'hānd, a.

a. [behīnd and hand.]

1. In arrear; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds, or are inadequate to the supply of wants; as, to be behindhand in one's circumstances.
2. In a backwardness, in respect to seasonableness or appropriateness; not equally forward with some other person or thing; as, behindhand in studies or in work.

In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison. This word, like adrift, aloft, ashamed, and several other words, never properly precedes the noun. Shakespeare's “Behindhand slackness” is a poetical exception.