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21time — time1 [ taım ] noun *** ▸ 1 quantity clock measures ▸ 2 period ▸ 3 occasion/moment ▸ 4 time available/needed ▸ 5 how fast music is played ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) uncount the quantity that you measure using a clock: Time seemed to pass more quickly than… …
22for */*/*/ — weak [fə] , strong [fɔː] preposition 1) intended to benefit sb/sth used for saying who or what is intended to receive something or get the benefit of it Claudia, this present is for you.[/ex] The academy provides training for young… …
23time — often has a curious magnetic effect, attracting extra words to sentences, as here: Indeed, he likes to say that prostitution is a kind of time share business, since the property in question is being occupied for a short length of time (New… …
24time — often has a curious magnetic effect, attracting extra words to sentences, as in: The property was occupied for a short length of time. Make it for a short time. Occasionally, time itself is superfluous, as in constructions of this sort: The… …
25short-term — ♦♦♦ ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Short term is used to describe things that will last for a short time, or things that will have an effect soon rather than in the distant future. Investors weren t concerned about short term profits over the next few… …
26time — Wā, manawa, au; hola (o clock). See times. Also: hanana, la a, la ahia; ano (in songs); mawa (rare); pale, lele (time interval in music). At a time, pā (followed by a numeral). At the time that, i, iā, i … hana. At the time that …
27for the time being — we re living in the cottage for the time being Syn: for now, for the moment, for the present, in the interim, for the nonce, in/for the meantime, in the meanwhile, for a short time, briefly; temporarily, provisionally, pro tem …
28For Queen and Country — Infobox Film name = For Queen and Country caption = DVD cover for the film imdb id = 0097373 writer = Martin Stellman Trix Worrell starring = Denzel Washington Bruce Payne Dorian Healy director = Martin Stellman producer = Tim Bevan music =… …
29short-lived — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. transitory, impermanent, mortal, perishable, ephemeral, fugitive, evanescent; doomed. See transientness.Ant., longlived, permanent. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. brief, momentary, temporary; see… …
30time-out — mainly American something that you say when you want people to stop what they are doing for a short time, especially when they are having an argument. OK, time out. We can calm down over a cup of coffee …
