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Meaning of double-time | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

To march at double time.
intransitive
To order troops to march at double time.
transitive

Examples

“[…]after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

double-timed double-times double-timing double-tongue double-tongued double-tongues