time-waste
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English
Alternative forms
- timewaste, time waste
Etymology
Noun
time-waste (plural time-wastes)
- The wasting of time.
- That which wastes time; a waste of time.
Verb
time-waste (third-person singular simple present time-wastes, present participle time-wasting, simple past and past participle time-wasted)
- (intransitive) To waste time.
- 2014, Niramisa Weiss, Forgiving The Unforgivable: Removing the Obstacles to Love:
- In truth, there is nothing to love and nothing to hate about the Justin Bieber idol and if we have allowed ourselves to be distracted by this nothingness, we are just wasting our time. And there is no need for us to time-waste a second longer.
Related terms
See also
- time-loss
- time-use
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