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⏱️ Reducing time needed ⏱️ Less time used
time-saving

time-saving

1 3.3
Less time needed to finish a task or something that makes a task take less time
  • noun
translation icon : ahorro de tiempo
  • Furthermore, survey respondents were more positive than negative when asked about the value of e-books, with accessibility, availability, and time savings most valued.

And that is in a way, time saving for your own research and work that you will do.

Examples

  • For sheer time savings, making your travel arrangements on the Internet beats the competition hands down.

    Blog text (31)

  • Those things can really add up to a significant time savings.

    The Informant! (2009)

  • So we clearly traded energy for human time savings.

    Blog text (32)

  • The result is a big time savings as students proceed as fast as their capabilities can take them, repeating only what they need to further their individual understanding.

    Blog text (34)

  • Time-saving gains were also recognized by nurses and physicians.

    Academic text (2000)

  • I see three principal advantages to online education: 1) leverage, especially of the best teachers; 2) time savings; 3) individualized teaching and new technologies.

    Blog text (34)

  • If you're one of the chronically disorganized, Justin Klosky has some time-saving tips for you.

    Blog text (20)

  • The final stage is all about QA, and there are significant time savings to be had by having the designers polish the code instead of sending annotated screenshots to the developers.

    Blog text (34)

  • Using a planner can lead to a significant time-saving when managing your daily tasks.

  • Many people seek time-saving techniques to help them finish their work more efficiently.

Synonyms

timesaver
vstime-saving
2 3.1

Something that helps you do a task faster

is the hyphenated written form used to describe reduced task duration

Antonyms

time-consuming
48 4.2

Needing a lot of time and patience

How Time-Saving

time-saving
1 3.3
waste of time
126 2.7

Surface Forms

time-saving singular
time-savings plural

Morphology

time-saving = time + saving (transparent) = time + save + ing

As a noun the compound refers to the 'saving' of time or a thing that saves time, a direct combination of its parts.

Etymology

As a noun, time-saving comes from the idea of a saving, which is 'an amount you keep' like money, so it means the time you keep or a tool or method that helps you do something faster.