timesaving
(of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
Origin of timesaving
1Other words from timesaving
- timesaver, noun
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How to use timesaving in a sentence
And though peas are in season now, frozen peas are a suitable time-saving substitute.
For use round the Hut, in thick drifts, the combination of helmet and blouse was handy and time-saving.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonThen remember when you are cooking potatoes that it is a time-saving plan to boil enough for two meals, or even more.
Living on a Little | Caroline French BentonA year of scales, exercises and solfeggios would have been far more time-saving.
Great Singers on the Art of Singing | James Francis CookeBut in practice it will be found both time saving and more satisfactory to first decide with what error you have to deal.
Even when it was no longer necessary to be cheap, it was time-saving and easy to go into a place one knew.
T. Tembarom | Frances Hodgson Burnett
British Dictionary definitions for time-saving
/ (ˈtaɪmˌseɪvɪŋ) /
shortening the length of time required for an operation, activity, etc
Derived forms of time-saving
- time-saver, noun
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