Meaning of lose time | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To run slow and not keep accurate time.
2. To fall behind schedule.
3. To waste time.

Equivalents

Examples

“On the third day the train lost time more and more. She raged with painful impatience. No good, at every station the train sat longer.”

“There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.”

“At Par, 150207 is the unit for the 1416 to Newquay. It is quite tatty and lacks tables - but does have plug sockets. It sounds laboured as it leaves, and while it sounds like it's struggling as it tackles Luxulyan, it's not losing time.”

“Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.”

“Well, tomorrow can wait, losing time in this place Till the sun is awake, be like a magnet on me”

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