How to pronounce “time out”

Meaning

• [Interjection]
• (sports) To call for a time-out.
• (idiomatic) To call for a suspension of activity or conversation.
• (live action roleplaying games) Used to announce the end of time in and the beginning of time out.
• [Noun]
• Alternative spelling of time-out.
• (uncountable, live action roleplaying games) The period of a live action roleplaying event when players are out of character.
• (countable, live action roleplaying games) The point at which such a period begins.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
• (intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.
• (transitive, business, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
• (transitive, cricket) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.

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