get behind
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
to fail to do as much work or pay as much money as you should by a particular time:
She got behind with her mortgage and the house was repossessed.
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Borrowing & lending
- be in the hole idiom
- borrow
- bounce
- call it quits idiom
- call sth in
- credit
- credit risk
- debenture
- fire sale
- gearing
- leveraged buyout
- liability
- liquidate
- national debt
- pay
- put sth up
- reschedule
- slate
- term
- tick
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