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flex time

[fleks-tahym] Origin

flex·time

[fleks-tahym]
noun
a system of working that allows an employee to choose, within limits, the hours for starting and leaving work each day.
Also, flex·i·time [flek-si-tahym] .


Origin:
1970–75; flex2 + time

flex·tim·er, flex·i·tim·er, noun
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Flex time is always a great word to know.
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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.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Word Origin & History

flextime
1972, translating Ger. Gleitzeit "sliding time."
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