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timebound en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From time + bound.

Meanings

  1. Attached to a certain moment or era in time.
    • It also wants the strategy to include a timebound plan for the implementation of the appropriate mitigation measures at prioritised crossings. 2019 October 23, Rail, page 23:
    • Because speech is timebound and words can come only one after the other, the way we stall, stumble and start again provides clues to the way we render thought with sound. 2007 August 19, Christine Kenneally, “Thinking Out Loud”, in New York Times:
  2. Focused on the passage of time, and on deadlines, etc.
    • Time-blind societies are more relaxed and have a more casual attitude towards punctuality than their “time-bound” peers. 2009, Susan Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-being, page 305:

Forms

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most timebound Degree=Sup lexicographic
time-bound alternative lexicographic
more timebound Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

time-blind

Deriveds

time-bound program · time-bound measure