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downtime

[daun-tahym] / ˈdaʊnˌtaɪm /


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However, charging takes much longer than filling a tank, creating costs associated with the truck’s downtime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

It’s also big enough for basketball games, and Brundo recently painted a full court on the asphalt so singer The Weeknd could play ball during downtime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Hands down, the EV can win on energy cost, but we still have to make sure we don’t give those savings back through downtime and lost utilization,” Burke said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He said it had reduced Llanwern's UK market to just 25% and meant that workers were having a lot of downtime with production lines that are not constantly running.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

I could only hope she’d read it during her 12.5 minutes a day of downtime, even if she couldn’t resist editing it before returning it to me for corrections and a clean second draft.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

But toy sales tend to be resilient in downtimes because parents do not want to disappoint their children, said Linda Bolton Weiser, an analyst with D.A.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022

Since March 14, production has been at a standstill at its truck plants in Munich and Krakow, and it has seen significant production downtimes in Nuremberg, Salzgitter and Wittlich, MAN said.

From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2022

He’s shorthanded because only three of the 12 servers he laid off during the downtimes have returned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

At 30-minute intervals, he received faxes listing production rates and downtimes at Massey’s various mines.

From Washington Post ● May 22, 2018

The countries have different vacation periods, which Mr. Williams said leads to different downtimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2016


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