slow time

noun

, Informal.

1. standard time.

slow time

noun

1. military a slow marching pace, usually 65 or 75 paces to the minute: used esp in funeral ceremonies

Word History and Origins

Origin of slow time¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

The winter was a particularly slow time for hiring, according to Labor Department data.

From Washington Post

With the $25,000 we won from Discover, we’ve started to pay off some of our past debts and invest in ways to help employees through slow times in the future.

From Ozy

Chances are you will get much more for your money throughout this traditionally slow time of the year.

From Washington Blade

Prime Day, a shopping holiday invented in 2015 with no link to any larger social occasion, typically takes place in summer at a slow time for shopping.

From Fortune

Clusters, filaments, and voids make up the large-scale structure of the Universe, foster-child of gravity and slow time.

From The Daily Beast

They passed from the view of the two detectives with the locked, gliding stride of two dancers who moved to slow time.

From Project Gutenberg

The band of the Gloucesters were practising scales in unison to slow time.

From Project Gutenberg

Notwithstanding the heavy fire we thus suddenly received, the advance was made steadily, and in slow time.

From Project Gutenberg

I noticed that we were making very slow time, and afterwards learned that this was general on Southern roads.

From Project Gutenberg

As passed the slow time and the sun sank lower and lower, came the hour of supper; but likewise hunger passed them by.

From Project Gutenberg