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

• piss away, about, or around (vulgar); faff about, piddle around, about, or away (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

allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner

• Arabic: ضَيَّعَ اَلْوَقْت (ḍayyaʕa al-waqt)
• Armenian: ժամանակ վատնել (žamanak vatnel)
• Catalan: perdre temps (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 嘥時間／嘥时间 (saai¹ si⁴ gaan³), 嘥时间 (saai¹ si⁴ gaan³)

  Mandarin: 浪費時間／浪费时间 (làngfèi shíjiān), 浪费时间 (làngfèi shíjiān)

• Czech: plýtvat časem, mrhat časem
• Dutch: tijd verspillen
• Finnish: hukata aikaa, haaskata aikaa
• French: perdre son temps (fr)
• Galician: enredar, perder o tempo
• German: Zeit vergeuden
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• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: perdere tempo
• Japanese: 時間を無駄に過ごす (じかんをむだにすごす, jikan o muda ni sugosu)
• Korean: 시간을 소비하다 (siganeul sobihada)
• Lao: ເສຍເວລາ (sīa wē lā)
• Maori: ānewanewa
• Polish: tracić czas
• Portuguese: perder tempo
• Russian: теря́ть вре́мя impf (terjátʹ vrémja)
• Shan: သုမ်းၶၢဝ်းယၢမ်း (súm kháao yáam)
• Spanish: perder el tiempo (es), perecear (es), pelar la pava (es) (Spain, colloquial)
• Swedish: spilla tid, ödsla tid, förspilla tid
• Thai: เสียเวลา (th) (sǐia-wee-laa)
• Turkish: zaman öldürmek (tr), vakit geçirmek (tr), vakit öldürmek (tr), zaman geçirmek
• Vietnamese: tốn thì giờ (chẳng ra gì)

Anagrams

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