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  2. Wasting Time - Wikipedia

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    Wasting Time may refer to: Idleness, a lack of motion or energy; Goofing off, engaging in an idle pastime while neglecting obligations; Procrastination, avoidance of ...

  3. Running out the clock - Wikipedia

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    In sports strategy, running out the clock (also known as running down the clock, stonewalling, killing the clock, chewing the clock, stalling, time-wasting (or timewasting) or eating clock [1]) is the practice of a winning team allowing the clock to expire through a series of preselected plays, either to preserve a lead or hasten the end of a one-sided contest.

  4. Efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task.In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste.

  5. Northern American English - Wikipedia

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    doing cookies (rare synonym, scattered throughout the North, for doing doughnuts) frosting (synonym for icing) futz or futz around (/ f ĘŚ t s /; to fool around or waste time) [19] garbage (synonym for trash) [20] on the fritz (out of order, or into a state of disrepair) [21] pit (the seed or stone of a fruit) [22] you guys (the usual plural ...

  6. Wasted Time - Wikipedia

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    Wasting My Time (disambiguation) "Waste Time", a song by the Fire Theft from their self-titled album This page was last edited on 22 February 2022, at 14:08 (UTC). ...

  7. Sunk cost - Wikipedia

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    In economics and business decision-making, a sunk cost (also known as retrospective cost) is a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered. [1] [2] Sunk costs are contrasted with prospective costs, which are future costs that may be avoided if action is taken. [3]

  8. Wasting - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, wasting, also known as wasting syndrome, refers to the process by which a debilitating disease causes muscle and fat tissue to "waste" away. Wasting is sometimes referred to as "acute malnutrition" because it is believed that episodes of wasting have a short duration, in contrast to stunting , which is regarded as chronic malnutrition.

  9. Throw-away society - Wikipedia

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    Over the past few years, throw-away culture has worsened as the average amount of time a person wears a garment is 7 to 10 times before discarding it. That amount of time has decreased by 36% in the last 15 years. [22] Additionally, in the United States alone, the average consumer throws away an average of 81.5 pounds of clothing every year.