half empty en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Synonym of half full.
"[…] But we shouldn't be charging a share of the main line costs to the half-empty trains on the Marlow branch. If the Marlow branch trains were cut because they don't pay, you'd still have to face all the costs of the main line, just without the extra passengers delivered by the Marlow branch."
2023 November 1, Paul Clifton, “One account for the UK railway”, in RAIL, number 995, page 43:
Relateds
the glass half-empty · glass-half-empty
Synonyms
Translations (5)
eo duone malplena (holding about half of the full capacity — see also half full) · de halb leer (holding about half of the full capacity — see also half full) · nl halfleeg (holding about half of the full capacity — see also half full) · eo duonmalplena (holding about half of the full capacity — see also half full) · bg полупразен (holding about half of the full capacity — see also half full)