Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Behindhand \Be*hind"hand`\, adv. & a. [Behind + hand.]
   1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have
      exceeded the receipt of funds.

   2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is
      seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been
      accomplished; not equally forward with some other person
      or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand
      in studies or in work.

            In this also [dress] the country are very much
            behindhand.                           --Addison.

Source : WordNet®

behindhand
     adj : behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"
     adv : in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a
           month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run
           behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility
           bills" [syn: {behind}, {in arrears}]