bandwidth
- noun
- /ˈbændˌwɪdθ/
- Jargon
- I do not have the mental bandwidth to deal with this today.
- emotional bandwidth
- need for bandwidth
- more bandwidth
I don't really have the bandwidth or the interest.
- I don't really have the bandwidth or the interest.
- Like where is that limited bandwidth, time and focus best invested?
- I I need the mental bandwidth to like channel something, right.
- It's just, it doesn't even require any brain bandwidth because it's fundamentally who you are.
- But the happiness still gives you the resilience and the bandwidth to be able to cope with that.
- Especially I, I, I, I just don't have the bandwidth to be able to take everything in.
- We hire for specific tasks that bandwidth does not allow us to do in house anymore.
- Loss and grief and healing expands our bandwidth.
- If they're interested and they have the bandwidth to read it, they will probably ask for it.
- Those people do not have the bandwidth to take notes.
- I'd know a lot less about current events, but I'd have plenty of spare bandwidth to think about other things.
- I'm just trying to show the actual bandwidth of what we call others opinions.
- No, they actually have a broader scope of bandwidth and they see things you can't see.
- Give them a break, let them replete their bandwidth, respect them and let them breathe through it.
- I mean, one of the examples Elon uses is that the low bandwidth of speech.
- Because men own pretty much the bandwidth, which is taken up by cricket.
Examples
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I don't really have the bandwidth or the interest.
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One of our scarcest resources is the mindspace—aka mental bandwidth—of citizens and leaders.
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However, if you think you have time or planning bandwidth for communities.
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There was not enough time, nor was there enough resource bandwidth to do anything more than what we were already doing.
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Like where is that limited bandwidth, time and focus best invested?
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My bandwidth with negotiation is limited.
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If they're interested and they have the bandwidth to read it, they will probably ask for it.
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You haven't got the bandwidth for that.
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But the happiness still gives you the resilience and the bandwidth to be able to cope with that.
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I do not have the mental bandwidth to deal with this today.
Synonyms
The maximum amount something can hold or store
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bandwidth in the figurative sense is a helpful image from the technical word: band + width gives the idea of how much 'space' there is. So when someone says they don't have the bandwidth, they mean they do not have enough 'time' or 'attention' to handle more tasks.