waste time

English

Verb

waste time (third-person singular simple present wastes time, present participle wasting time, simple past and past participle wasted time)

1. To allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner.

Synonyms

• faff about (British, idiomatic)
• dick around (American, vulgar)

Derived terms

Terms derived from waste time

there's no time to waste time-waster

time-wasting waste of time

Translations

to allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner

Arabic: أضعف الوقت (ar) ('áD3afa al-waqt) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: perdre temps (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 浪費時間 (cmn), 浪费时间 (cmn) (làngfèi shíjiān) Czech: plýtvat časem (cs), mrhat časem (cs) Dutch: tijd verspillen (nl) Finnish: hukata (fi) aikaa (fi), haaskata (fi) aikaa French: perdre son temps (fr), perdre le temps (fr) German: Zeit vergeuden (de) Hindi: please add this translation if you can

Italian: perdere tempo (it) Japanese: 時間を無駄に過ごす (ja) (じかんをむだにすごす, jikan-o muda-ni sugosu) Korean: please add this translation if you can Polish: tracić czas Portuguese: perder tempo (pt) Russian: терять время (ru) (terját' vrémja) Spanish: perder el tiempo (es) Swedish: spilla (sv), förspilla (sv), fördriva (sv) tid (sv) c. Turkish: zaman öldürmek (tr), vakit geçirmek (tr), vakit öldürmek (tr), zaman geçirmek (tr) Vietnamese: tốn thì giờ (chẳng ra gì)