idle
Example Sentences
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“When this largesse is undertaken at a time when the economy has little or no idle capacity, like now, the results, predictably, are destructive,” he added.
Staff members watched from the doorway while two white school security SUVs idled nearby.
From Los Angeles Times
Facilities which would normally build thousands of cars each week remained idle for more than a month, and production did not get back to normal for some time after that.
From BBC
Using the political polls to time the stock market is little more than idle armchair speculation.
From MarketWatch
Stripping out one-time items, such as idle facility costs and recovery efforts associated with a fatal mudslide incident that occurred at one of its mines in September, earnings were 47 cents a share.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
