face time
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3.5
- noun
- /feɪs taɪm/
- Texting
:
videoconferencia
- This insight can heighten the value of virtual communications when face time is not available: affinity distance.
Examples
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We're gonna get you some face time.
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During the meeting, we scheduled some face time to discuss the project updates directly.
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Having regular face time with clients can strengthen our professional relationships.
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She appreciated the face time they had, which allowed them to connect more personally than through emails.
Synonyms
2
3.4
A way of having meetings with video and sound over the internet
Antonyms
How Live
15
2.7
- Texting
1
3.5
∞
1.0
- Texting
44
2.6
- Texting
724
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The nouns 'face' and 'time' together suggest 'time involving faces' or interpersonal contact, so learners can infer a session spent interacting with someone. However the specific modern/business sense of a scheduled live video/chat session (and the shift from in-person to virtual interaction) is a pragmatic extension that is not fully predictable from the constituents alone, making it only partially transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Face time for video chats comes from the literal image of spending time looking at someone's face on a screen. As video apps made this common, people used the phrase for a planned 'video call', so it now means a live video meeting.