short time 
noun [mass noun] British
The condition of working fewer than the regular hours per day or days per week: staff have agreed to work on short time...
- My husband, David, had just been put on short time and we had got behind with the mortgage.
- netcasting
- net cord
- net current assets
- net curtain
- nete
- Ne Temere
- net exporter
- net fern
- netful
- net game
- nethead
- nether
- Netherlander
- Netherlandic
- Netherlandish
- Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles
- Netherlands Reformed Church
- nether millstone
- nethermost
- nether region
- nether regions
- nether stone
- netherward
- netherworld