short-time
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.29 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lasting a short time; of short duration.
adj
Occurring with a short time of a specific event.
adj
Pertaining to work that has been short-timed.
adj
Of a sex worker, engaging customers for a brief sexual encounter rather than an extended period such as the whole night.
verb
To hire or be hired as a sex worker for the time period that ends when ejaculation is reached.
Example Sentences
- "The average rate on short-time loans, based on these bank reports, is 10.75 per cent."
- "The hue and cry against the short-time test was started by breed competitors and was largely a matter of sour grapes, and breeders who listen to this cry are simply playing into the hands of their enemies. Whatever valid objections there ever may have been to the short-time test made early in the period of lactation has been met and entirely counteracted by the short-time test made eight months after calving."
- "It will be a reasonable requirement to insist that short-time users pay their charges in advance and that unless paid in advance before the tenth of the month the company may discontinue service."
- "To many contemporary observers, especially to those who were short-time visitors, the bizarre bodily movements and ritual manipulations of the native spiritual practitioners were little different from arctic hysteria."
- "In this higher approximation to the short-time effects, the shock is no longer stationary or trapped unless it is supported by a negative steady-flow back pressure;"
- "The degree to which short-time changes in price are associated with short-time changes in supply of and demand for butter provides some basis for appraising the pricing system."
Etymology
From short time.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more short-time (comparative)
most short-time (superlative)
short-times (present, singular)
short-timing (participle, present)
short-timed (participle, past)
short-timed (past)