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wasted time

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meanings of wastedand time


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wasted
adjective
uk /ˈweɪs.tɪd/ us /ˈweɪs.tɪd/
Wasted time, money, etc. is time, money, etc. that is not used effectively because it does not produce the result ...
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time
noun
uk /taɪm/ us /taɪm/
the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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Examples of wasted time


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It wastedtime and effort without preventing anti-competitive behaviour.
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I recall only one speech which obviously and unashamedly wastedtime.
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Are we sure that there is not too much wastedtime in the courts?
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It might be described as a chronicle of wastedtime.
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Good alternatives are therefore much more successful than wastedtime in prison.
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It looked as though we had indeed wastedtime.
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Wastedtime is alleged to occur chiefly during the last six months.
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Failure to provide properly trained interpreters can result in wastedtime and money.
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Why have we wastedtime on previous occasions tabling resolutions?
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I felt that wastedtime, so today my written statement has already been circulated.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The opportunities for passengers to save themselves a certain amount of time merely represents wastedtime.
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The hard fact is that we have had two years of wastedtime.
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I venture to hope that he will not feel that it has been entirely wastedtime.
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Just to please some people, under ludicrous conditions, we have wastedtime and money.
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It would be a tragedy if we wastedtime.
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I do not think we have wastedtime.
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We have certainly not wastedtime on it.
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The second spell of deflation, the compulsory freeze, was wastedtime as well.
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I am sorry that we have wastedtime in discussing personalities.
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I nearly cried over the references to wastedtime.
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