wastetimeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wastetime (plural wastetimes) (rare)

1. (derogatory) Something done to pass the time.
   • 2005, Colin Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (page 102)

     […] theatres were closed, novels contemptuously dismissed as 'wastetimes', and poets declared to be wantons; […]

2. The period of time that a product spends in the environment as waste, after it has been disposed of.
   • 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment, Growth and Its Implications for the Future: Hearing... (page 1791)

     We need longer useful lifetimes and short biodegradable wastetimes for products, if we are to minimize material-resource inputs and maximize recovery and reuse of wastes.

動詞

waste time (third-person singular simple present wastes time, present participle wasting time, simple past and past participle wasted time)

1. To allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner.
   • 1973, “Sad Song”, in Berlin, performed by Lou Reed:

     I'm gonna stop wastin' my time / Somebody else would have broken both of her arms

   • 2006, Matt Bellamy, “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:

     Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

   • 2025 February 5, Richard Wilcock, “GBR searches for answers to ticketing simplification”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 26:

     Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has wasted no time.

同意語

• dally; dawdle; dick around (American, vulgar), fiddlefart, fiddlefuck; faff about, fanny about, fiddle about, fritter, fuck around (vulgar), goof off, piddle around, about, or away (British, idiomatic); piss away, about, or around (vulgar); slack off, screw around

派生語

アナグラム

• time-waste