Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The period of time when something, such as a factory or a piece of machinery, is not in operation, especially as the result of a malfunction.
- noun A period of time when one is not working or engaged in a planned activity.
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- noun The amount of time lost due to forces beyond one's control, as with a computer crash.
- noun A break or rest from work; leisure time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions)
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think going forward as important as the day rate is the quality of the underlined contract and it ties in a lot of what we've been talking about here on how you look at subsea downtime, which the word downtime may become something other than downtime.
unknown title 2012
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This downtime is the perfect opportunity to bring on your VA.
Bill More, Work Less: The #1 Way Freelancers Can Make More Money | Write to Done 2008
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Last night was bad, all fever and chills hope you are better soonest .. whenever I do a trip, I always factor in downtime, makes life so much easier.
Ugh 3. greygirlbeast 2010
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I used the thirty-day downtime from the manuscript to complete my renovations on Henrys house.
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Thanks to electronic submissions and one-to-one workshops, much of that downtime is omitted.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with an Editor: Lisa Rector, Part 1 2008
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For better or worse, for most normal people downtime is simply a fact of life.
Sometimes when a site/service goes down it’s ok : #comments 2008
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I asked everyone what they were working on in their downtime from the show.
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Synopsis: Christine rents a San Francisco apartment in downtime (the past).
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Not sure about when the actual scheduled downtime is going to happen though.
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Actually, there are 525,600 minutes in a year, so. 01% downtime translates to 52.56 minutes per year, so hang in there reply
Systemwide GMail Outage Michael Arrington 2005
1246884822 commented on the word downtime
see uptime for sf uses.
June 2, 2011