单词 | time-spender |
释义 | > as lemmastime-spender (a) With agent nouns, as in time-giver, time-setter, time-spender, etc. ΚΠ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 36 Þe time-zettere ontrewe... Vor hire time-zettinge, hi destrueþ and makeþ beggeres þe knyȝtes. 1613 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 33 The King..was no time~giuer vnto growing dangers. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 12 Those impertinent time-spenders, the Priests. 1799 Monthly Mag. July 488/1 Mr. Henry Wood..obtained a patent for the invention of a time-setter. 1845 W. Francis Gwennap iii. 112 Her handsome town-clock which the time-seeker greets. 1890 Friends' Intelligencer & Jrnl. 13 Dec. 800/1 Those days which Browning, true time-conqueror, calls ‘The last of life, for which the first was made’. 1933 A. S. Eddington Expanding Universe iii. 121 Like other time-grabbers I have generally adhered to the long time-scale provisionally. 1989 Precision Marketing 29 May 22/5 We can put our ads in..slots no self-respecting time-buyer would dream of leading a campaign on. 2009 C. van Kleveren Intra-household Allocation of Time iii. 49 Direct time expenditures by each partner..are assumed to affect only the utility of the individual time spender. < as lemmas |
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