time study
- noun
- Specialized
:
estudio de tiempos
- By performing a time study, the team was able to identify the most efficient method for completing the project.
When we do time studies on where people waste time with e-mail, it's not the checking, it's not the replying.
- When we do time studies on where people waste time with e-mail, it's not the checking, it's not the replying.
Examples
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A time study could help determine how much time it takes to catalog a Kindle work as compared to other versions in print or on another electronic platform.
Academic text (2012) -
A regular stopwatch time study requires continuous observations by the time study analyst.
Academic text (2015) -
Ben then spent a considerable amount of time studying his light meter.
Fiction book (1999) -
When we do time studies on where people waste time with e-mail, it's not the checking, it's not the replying.
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These include historical experience, time studies, predetermined time standards, and work sampling.
Academic text (2015) -
I've done a time study, Colonel Saito, of the entire project.
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A regular stopwatch time study requires continuous observations by the time study analyst.
Academic text (2015) -
Current law allows workshops to set sub-minimum pay rates themselves, theoretically based on prevailing wage surveys and time studies.
Blog text (33) -
Every time study participants took a sip of green tea, for example, they perceived it to be more astringent than during the previous sip, indicating that the astringents were reacting more strongly with the lubricating proteins in their mouths upon each exposure.
Blog text (7) -
The manager conducted a time study to find out how long each task took and improve productivity.
Synonyms
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4.1
A careful check of a job to find faster, easier ways to do it
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5.3
A careful look at how a job is done to find faster, easier steps
A study that measures how long each part of a job takes to find a faster way
People watch how workers do a job to find the fastest, easiest way to do it
A careful timing of movements to find faster ways to do a job
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound literally combines 'time' and 'study', so learners can guess it involves investigating durations or timing, giving partial transparency. However, the established technical meaning — a workplace analysis measuring task times to improve efficiency — is domain-specific and could be misinterpreted as a general ‘study about time’ without prior exposure.
Etymology
Time study comes from early factory work, when managers used a stopwatch to measure time for each small job and then made a study of the steps. So, the phrase now means 'measuring how long tasks take to find the best way to do them'.