down time

[doun-tahym]

down·time

[doun-tahym]
noun
1.
a time during a regular working period when an employee is not actively productive.
2.
an interval during which a machine is not productive, as during repair, malfunction, maintenance.
Also called dead time.


Origin:
1925–30; down1 + time
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Down time is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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down time definition


  1. n.
    the time when a computer is not operating. (Compare this with up time.) : I can't afford a lot of down time in the system I buy.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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