lose time
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lose time
verb loses time · losing time · lost time
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To run slow and not keep accurate time.
Opposite: gain time
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To fall behind schedule.
On the third day the train lost time more and more. She raged with painful impatience. No good, at every station the train sat longer.
Opposite: keep time, lose no time
- To waste time. Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.
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verb of a person etc.: to fall behind schedule
| Español | perder tiempo |
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