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offtime

offtime

See also: off-time and off time

English

Noun

offtime (countable and uncountable, plural offtimes)

  1. Alternative form of off time
    • 2014, Muriel Jensen, Father Found, ISBN 1460367898:
      “When I worked for the CIA, my offtime cover was as a personal guide in dangerous parts of the world. I made a bundle. So we're comfortable.”
    • 2006, John A. Clark, ‎Richard F. Paige, ‎& Fiona A.C. Polack, Security in Pervasive Computing, ISBN 3540333770, page 51:
      Both offtime and ontime must be adjusted in such a way that a synchronization between the output and the reception of the requests from the intruder is achieved.
    • 1965, United States Federal Communications Commission, Federal Communications Commission Reports:
      The average elapsed time for those races at the Florida tracks was 46.3 minutes after offtime, with the maximum being 54 minutes and the miniumum being 42 minutes.