[U] (BrE) if workers are put on short time, they work for fewer hours than usual, because there is not enough work to do or not enough money to pay them
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
Where does this definition of short time come from?
This entry for short time is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is short time a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, short time is tagged as noun.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
