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hoursworth en · NOUN

Etymology

From hour + -s- + -worth.

Meanings

  1. The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one hour.
    • Sir, Despite the increased cost, we do like to flesh out our feature film programmes to give our patrons a full two hoursworth. 1987, Film:
    • Weightless as angels, we float an aimless celestial hoursworth through spectacular submarinity 1994, Lee Montgomery, Mary Hussmann, David Hamilton, Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction, →ISBN:
    • This opportunity I snatched at eagerly, there being nothing else on in Finland at the time apart from a hotel video of The Lavender Hill Mob apparently dubbed by tree frogs with no adenoids, and was thus Saabed across several hoursworth of englaciated ruts to a vast gelid tract, equidistant from Pokka and Lokka, on which grew a million-odd trees. 1984, Alan Coren, Bumf, Robson Books Limited: