response timenoun [ C or U ]
uk/rɪˈspɒns ˌtaɪm/us/rɪˈspɑːns ˌtaɪm/the amount of time that a person or system takes to react or to deal with something:
The ambulance service is trying to reduce delays in response time.
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Specific periods of time
- around-the-clock
- British Summer Time
- BST
- calendar month
- daylight saving time
- depth
- generation
- hr
- hundred
- Jurassic
- lunar month
- microsecond
- midpoint
- nightlong
- Q, q
- quarter
- Quaternary
- s
- sec
- trimester
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