idle time

noun

commerce time during which a machine or a worker could be working but is not, as when one job has been completed and tooling or materials for the next are not complete or available Compare downtime

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The question of idle time does not enter into computations of the year's possible income and necessary outlays.

The Pennsylvania made a round trip in about thirty-five days, with a day or two of idle time at either end.

In the idle time between dinner and supper he sat down by the fire, lighted his pipe, repented his unruly tongue, and waited.

Fortunately, a brother was able to pay her doctor's bills, until he also was laid off during part of her idle time.

She had been obliged to go in debt to her landlady for part of her long idle time, after her savings had been exhausted.

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