short-time
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
Etymology: From short time.
Inflected forms:
form: more short-time
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most short-time
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: short-times
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: short-timing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: short-timed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: short-timed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Lasting a short time; of short duration.
pos: adj
examples: The average rate on short-time loans, based on these bank reports, is 10.75 per cent.
The hue and cry against the short-time test was started by breed competitors and was largely a matter of sour grapes, and breeders who listen to this cry are simply playing into the hands of their enemies. Whatever valid objections there ever may have been to the short-time test made early in the period of lactation has been met and entirely counteracted by the short-time test made eight months after calving.
It will be a reasonable requirement to insist that short-time users pay their charges in advance and that unless paid in advance before the tenth of the month the company may discontinue service.
To many contemporary observers, especially to those who were short-time visitors, the bizarre bodily movements and ritual manipulations of the native spiritual practitioners were little different from arctic hysteria.
gloss: Occurring with a short time of a specific event.
pos: adj
examples: In this higher approximation to the short-time effects, the shock is no longer stationary or trapped unless it is supported by a negative steady-flow back pressure;
The degree to which short-time changes in price are associated with short-time changes in supply of and demand for butter provides some basis for appraising the pricing system.
To borrow some terminology from statistical physics, we are interested here in the “quenched” short-time behavior of p_y, as opposed to its "annealed" behavior.
Lines represent short-time trajectories with travelling time T < 14 days.
gloss: Pertaining to work that has been short-timed.
pos: adj
examples: The short-time weekly benefit amount shall be the product of the regular weekly unemployment compensation amount multiplied by the percentage of reduction of at least 10 percent in the individual's usual weekly hours of work.
He is nevertheless entitled to the short-time weekly benefit amount of $30.00 regardless of the partial benefit provisions.
In several European countries short-time working is effectively subsidized by the government in those individual firm cases where it can be shown that adverse economic conditions require a substantial reduction in the working time of existing employees in order for the firm to remain viable.
gloss: Of a sex worker, engaging customers for a brief sexual encounter rather than an extended period such as the whole night.
pos: adj
examples: [A]ll the wise young men and old foolish devils on the Northside who didn’t fancy paying for a high time with the worldly short-time Army whores of Chadla’s brothels.
gloss: To reduce the amount of workhours in a given time period.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The United Steelworkers have estimated that some 40,000 workers have been laid off and that many more have been short-timed.
I had been there six months when a lot of workers were short-timed.
Man, we been short-timed?
gloss: To hire or be hired as a sex worker for the time period that ends when ejaculation is reached.
pos: verb
tags: Vietnam
examples: A freelance prostitute who was named the Indian Princess for the Indian costume she wore was a legend in Tong Du Chon. This young lady only “short-timed” officers generally in the rank of major or above.
Thien even stole money from a farang who short-timed her and then passed out in his hotel room.
gloss: To cut short the duration of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But our poet's happiness was short-timed, for both mother and child died shortly after, and both were buried in our church.
Marital felicity was short-timed.
Although their courtship had been short-timed the way of the Lord had fortunately endowed him with the integrity of this emancipated female partner.
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