short time meaning

Noun: short time

1. A period of reduced work hours

[Business]
noun [U] (BrE)

(HR )

a situation in which workers work fewer hours than usual when there are not enough orders, materials, etc., so that they can keep their jobs:

Staff at the factory have been put on short time.

They have avoided redundancies by introducing short-time working.

• short-time:     adjective
• life is short and time is swift.:    [American slang]Pr ...
• short-time effect:    [Electronics]See S ...

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1. vermiculite tends to collapse in a short time.
2. it disappears completely in a very short time.
3. within a short time i will be in the chips again.
4. she remained but a short time.
5. each reversal appears to have taken place in a very short time.