0 a situation in which the people who work at a factory or in an office work fewer days or hours than usual for less money because there is not much work to do:
1 a situation in which workers work fewer hours or days than usual because there is not much work to do:
They have been enlightened greatly in a short time.
If a certain trend or feature can be perceived over a short time span, that feature is said to be on the surface level.
Within a short time the halls of the quarry were changed into a modern machine-works factory.
The method of characteristics gives a continuously differentiable solution for short time, since the initial data are smooth.
These change both on long and on short time-scales.
The objective is to maximize removal in a short time period that is related to factory environmental sampling.
Parents also learned to punish inappropriate behavior systematically and moderately with short time-out periods.
The parents opted for the latter non-operative approach and the infant died a short time thereafter.
