downtimenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈdaʊn.taɪm/us/ˈdaʊn.taɪm/the time during which a machine, especially a computer, is not working or is not able to be used
informal time when you relax and do not do very much:
We had a busy weekend so I'm planning to have some downtime tomorrow.
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Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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Time off
Passive and not working