time-poor
Britishadjective
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lacking spare time or leisure time
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under pressure to complete activities quickly
Example Sentences
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Because often with episodic storytelling, people either want to binge-watch it, or they’re time-poor, or watch it with two or three other things on board.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms Hope also considers that for people who are perhaps time-poor, there might be a benefit.
From BBC
But the modern reality includes time-poor families, fussy eaters, siblings at odds and stress about what meals to cook — not to mention cost-of-living pressures.
From Salon
He added that money-rich people are often time-poor, so they don’t have the hours and energy required to work with architects, consultants, contractors and city officials to develop the estate of their dreams.
From Los Angeles Times
The surface-level joke of “A Short Account of Dr Bentley,” then, is that a time-poor reader really might need to check the details of some particular facet of Bentley’s awfulness and be delighted at the provision of a functioning index.
From Slate
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