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Meaning of double-time | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. To march at double time.
    intransitive
  2. 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
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

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

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