0 present participle of idle --
1 If an engine or machine idles, it runs slowly but does not move or do any work: --
It is much better that men should be paid for doing necessary and useful work than for idling and rusting at the street corners.
This could not have been done by the cheap idling process experimented with by us at the end of the war.
It is not always suitable for idling on the beach, but it is good for touring and ideal for many forms of sport.
Regarding the problem of labour there have been allegations that workpeople are idling.
Some systems will already automatically shut the engine down after a prolonged period of idling.
They did not allow me time for idling on the way.
I do not want to say that they are all idling and slacking; that would be wicked, and it would be untrue.
I can hardly agree that if there is idling it can be for lack of sustenance.
