0 not working or being used:
1 without any particular purpose:
idle chatter/gossip/speculation
an idle glance
This is no idle threat.
3 If an engine or machine idles, it runs slowly but does not move or do any work:
5 If an engine idles, it is operating but not doing any work:
6 not operating or not being used:
7 used to describe assets that are not earning money or interest, or not earning enough:
8 unemployed, or not working on a job:
9 to stop using your employees, factory, machines etc., for example because you do not have enough work for them to do:
Exploring the role of alpha oscillations during externally vs. internally directed attention and the implications for idling and inhibition hypotheses.
I can hardly agree that if there is idling it can be for lack of sustenance.
I do not want to say that they are all idling and slacking; that would be wicked, and it would be untrue.
They did not allow me time for idling on the way.
Regarding the problem of labour there have been allegations that workpeople are idling.
A private individual would not have a lot of wasters idling their time away, because he could not afford it.
Do they then record at the time when the engine is merely idling, but the vehicle standing still?
What sense is there in old men remaining at work, while young men are idling about the street corners?
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