TIME OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time out mean? 

• TIME OUT (noun)
  The noun TIME OUT has 1 sense:

1. a pause from doing something (as work)

  Familiarity information: TIME OUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME OUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pause from doing something (as work)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

break; recess; respite; time out

Context example:

he took time out to recuperate

Hypernyms ("time out" is a kind of...):

pause (temporary inactivity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time out"):

spring break (a week or more of recess during the spring term at school)

 Context examples 

Activities designed to promote appropriate behavior, conduct, or action including time out, limits, and controls.

(Discipline, NCI Thesaurus)

Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They have had the art of printing, as well as the Chinese, time out of mind: but their libraries are not very large; for that of the king, which is reckoned the largest, does not amount to above a thousand volumes, placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long, whence I had liberty to borrow what books I pleased.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That has been true, but when Saturn spends time out of your fifth house of truelove, everything will seem easier regarding love and children. (You may even have better luck with conception.) Saturn will be out of Capricorn, your house of truelove, from March 21 until July 1.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)