prime time
See also: primetime and prime-time
English
Alternative forms
Noun
- (obsolete) Spring.
- (obsolete) A new period or time of youthfulness; the beginning of something.
- (television, radio) The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 19:00 and 23:00
- (figurative) Maturity; the state at which a person or product will be accepted by the mainstream.
- 2000, Ira Brodsky, Network World, page 18
- It took years longer than proponents had hoped, but wireless data is ready for prime time.
- 2005, Leanna Stiefel, Measuring School Performance and Efficiency: Implications for Practice and Research, Eye On Education →ISBN, page 13
- Can these measures be regarded as useful, promising, or not ready for prime time? We focus only on the utility of these measures for use by policymakers.
- 2007, John E. Richardson, Annual Editions: Marketing 08/09 →ISBN
- Now, as more and more businesses re-orient themselves to serve the consumer, ethnography has entered prime time.
- 2008, J. Richard Kuzmyak, Forecasting Metropolitan Commercial and Freight Travel, Transportation Research Board →ISBN, page 3
- And as with commodity-based models, tour-based models have also not yet reached prime time.
- 2000, Ira Brodsky, Network World, page 18
Translations
block of television programming
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Adjective
prime time (not comparable)
- (television, radio) Showing during prime time.
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English prime time.
Pronunciation
Noun
prime time m (countable and uncountable, plural primes times)
- (usually uncountable) prime time
- (Canada, countable) type of cigarillo
Synonyms
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