lose timeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

lose time (third-person singular simple present loses time, present participle losing time, simple past and past participle lost time)

1. (of a clock) To run slow and not keep accurate time.

   Antonym: gain time

2. (of a person etc.) To fall behind schedule.

   Antonyms: keep time, lose no time

   • 1925, DH Lawrence, “The Willful Woman”, in St. Mawr and Other Stories, page 1:

     On the third day the train lost time more and more. She raged with painful impatience. No good, at every station the train sat longer.

   • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132:

     There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.

   • 2026 January 7, 'Mystery Shopper', “Cornish cream - without the jams?”, in RAIL, number 1052, page 48:

     At Par, 150207 is the unit for the 1416 to Newquay. It is quite tatty and lacks tables - but does have plug sockets. It sounds laboured as it leaves, and while it sounds like it's struggling as it tackles Luxulyan, it's not losing time.

3. To waste time.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.

   • 2025 April 4, Ed Sheeran, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Johnny McDaid, Savan Kotecha, “Azizam”, in Play‎, performed by Ed Sheeran:

     Well, tomorrow can wait, losing time in this place
     Till the sun is awake, be like a magnet on me