short timen.

Forms: Also (attrib.) short-time.

Etymology: < short adj. + time n., int., and conj.

1. The state or condition of working less than the regular number of hours per day or of days per week. Also attributive and quasi-adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > full- or part-time

full time1821

short time1848

half-time1861

part-work1917

1848 W. Fagan Life & Times Daniel O'Connell II. 561 A supporter of ‘short time’ work for children in the Factories.

1861 J. S. Mill Let. 1 Mar. (1910) I. 245 The equality, if not superiority,..of the short-time pupils.

1861 J. Ward Diary 16 Nov. in J. Burnett Useful Toil (1974) i. 80 The manufacturing districts..are all running short time through the scarcity of cotton.

1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine iii. 84 Short time means short wages.

1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 Jan. 13/2 Disorderly scenes were witnessed recently in Newcastle-on-Tyne..owing to an intimation that fifty [employees] would be put on short time.

1908 Daily Chron. 3 Aug. Short time for all is suggested as preferable to no work for some.

1911 Rep. Labour & Social Conditions in Germany (Tariff Reform League) III. vi–vii. 198 In the case of industries where fluctuations of unemployment occur ‘short time’ instead of dismissal is more common in Germany than in this country.

1927 A. L. Bowley & J. C. Stamp National Income 1924 34 Both the 1924 and the 1926 accounts show the effect of overtime and short-time.

1930 Economist 22 Feb. 411/1 Several watchmaking factories are working short time.

1955 Times 14 May 5/6 Three years ago more than 80,000 textile and clothing workers were flung out of work, and thousands more were on short time.

1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 p. xix Unemployment was at a low level but in the latter half of the year there was much short-time working particularly in the motor-car industry.

1978 P. Bailey Leisure & Class in Victorian Eng. iv. 80 In the early 1870s…the success of the Short Time agitation encouraged further campaigns to cut working hours.

2. slang. A brief visit to a prostitute; a brief sojourn in a hotel for sexual purposes. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > brief visit to hotel

short time1937

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 763/1 Short time, a visit to a prostitute for one copulation only.

1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. ii. 48 It's no bother. It's the ‘short times’ that are the bother. In and out three times in a night.

1961 R. Seth Anat. Spying ii. 30 Ninety-five per cent of any ship's company, as soon as they are able to get ashore,..make straight for the nearest bar for a ‘quick one’, and then on to the nearest brothel for what is known in the jargon as ‘a short time’.

1971 Guardian 8 July 3/1 Miles of girlie bars, short time hotels.

1979 J. Wainwright Take Murder i. 23 Three hours. Not the proverbial ‘short time’... It means a bed somewhere.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	short time
释义	short timen. Forms: Also (attrib.) short-time. Etymology: < short adj. + time n., int., and conj. 1. The state or condition of working less than the regular number of hours per day or of days per week. Also attributive and quasi-adv. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > full- or part-time full time1821 short time1848 half-time1861 part-work1917 1848 W. Fagan Life & Times Daniel O'Connell II. 561 A supporter of ‘short time’ work for children in the Factories. 1861 J. S. Mill Let. 1 Mar. (1910) I. 245 The equality, if not superiority,..of the short-time pupils. 1861 J. Ward Diary 16 Nov. in J. Burnett Useful Toil (1974) i. 80 The manufacturing districts..are all running short time through the scarcity of cotton. 1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine iii. 84 Short time means short wages. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 Jan. 13/2 Disorderly scenes were witnessed recently in Newcastle-on-Tyne..owing to an intimation that fifty [employees] would be put on short time. 1908 Daily Chron. 3 Aug. Short time for all is suggested as preferable to no work for some. 1911 Rep. Labour & Social Conditions in Germany (Tariff Reform League) III. vi–vii. 198 In the case of industries where fluctuations of unemployment occur ‘short time’ instead of dismissal is more common in Germany than in this country. 1927 A. L. Bowley & J. C. Stamp National Income 1924 34 Both the 1924 and the 1926 accounts show the effect of overtime and short-time. 1930 Economist 22 Feb. 411/1 Several watchmaking factories are working short time. 1955 Times 14 May 5/6 Three years ago more than 80,000 textile and clothing workers were flung out of work, and thousands more were on short time. 1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 p. xix Unemployment was at a low level but in the latter half of the year there was much short-time working particularly in the motor-car industry. 1978 P. Bailey Leisure & Class in Victorian Eng. iv. 80 In the early 1870s…the success of the Short Time agitation encouraged further campaigns to cut working hours. 2. slang. A brief visit to a prostitute; a brief sojourn in a hotel for sexual purposes. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > brief visit to hotel short time1937 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 763/1 Short time, a visit to a prostitute for one copulation only. 1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. ii. 48 It's no bother. It's the ‘short times’ that are the bother. In and out three times in a night. 1961 R. Seth Anat. Spying ii. 30 Ninety-five per cent of any ship's company, as soon as they are able to get ashore,..make straight for the nearest bar for a ‘quick one’, and then on to the nearest brothel for what is known in the jargon as ‘a short time’. 1971 Guardian 8 July 3/1 Miles of girlie bars, short time hotels. 1979 J. Wainwright Take Murder i. 23 Three hours. Not the proverbial ‘short time’... It means a bed somewhere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1848
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