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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.
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The Pennsylvania made a round trip in about thirty-five days, with a day or two of idle time at either end.
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In the idle time between dinner and supper he sat down by the fire, lighted his pipe, repented his unruly tongue, and waited.
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Fortunately, a brother was able to pay her doctor's bills, until he also was laid off during part of her idle time.
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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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