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time-poor

adjective

  1. lacking spare time or leisure time

  2. under pressure to complete activities quickly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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Ms Hope also considers that for people who are perhaps time-poor, there might be a benefit.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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