time is money
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.54 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
proverb
Money is wasted (in lost wages, missed opportunities, etc.) when a person's time is not used productively; time is valuable and should not be wasted.
Example Sentences
- "Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho’ he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought not to reckon That the only Expence; he has really spent or rather thrown away Five Shillings besides."
- "And what do you mean to do with your time this winter? You must remember that time is money."
- "His words and manner carried the crisp terseness of the busy man whose time is money."
- "The habit of overnight travel was encouraged by the introduction of third class sleepers in 1928, developed greatly during the war, and in an age when time as money has clearly come to stay; […]."