travel timen.
/ˈtravl tʌɪm/, U.S. /ˈtræv(ə)l ˌtaɪm/ Time spent travelling. Also: the amount of time it takes to travel from one place to another.
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > time it takes to do a particular thing
paternoster-whilec1400
the space of a paternoster1561
travel time1851
airtime1928
run time1964
the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > spell of some action > specific activities
gradation1613
standing1653
sea-time1663
travel time1851
alert1920
block time1930
screen time1991
1851 Illinois Daily Jrnl. 1 Mar. It would be an extra waste of travel time of 10 per cent. on all who daily go half a mile.
1852 Daily Scioto Gaz. (Chillicothe, Ohio) 27 May Travel-time from Mansfield to New York has been reduced from ten days to two.
1944 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 28 400 The airplane..has reduced from weeks to hours the actual travel time between the most distant populated points on the face of the earth.
1977 N.Y. Mag. 30 May 40/3 I work anywhere from twelve to fifteen hours a day and the travel time is crucial for the reading I must get done.
2016 L. Scearce Man. Singing Voice Rehabilit. xvi. 325/2 When I first met the singers, they were in the habit of doing a lot of talking during their travel time in the van.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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