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gain time

gain time noun: a reduction of a prisoner’s sentence due to exemplary behavior or participation in a rehabilitation program during incarceration.

Noun

gain time (countable and uncountable, plural gain times)

  1. A reduction of a prisoner’s sentence due to exemplary behavior or participation in a rehabilitation program during incarceration.

Verb

gain time (third-person singular simple present gains time, present participle gaining time, simple past and past participle gained time)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To cause a delay by a circuitous mode of procedure in order to obtain more time than is available.
  2. To make up time lost; of a clock or watch, to run fast.
    • My opportunity to see what one of these engines could do came when we left Ballymoney on the train from Derry eight minutes late: No. 53 and her crew tore the schedule to shreds and reached Belfast six minutes early, having gained time on every section.1959 June, R. A. Young, “A Railway Holiday in Ireland—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 420
    Antonyms:
    lose time

gain time meaning in Malayalam

gain time in Malayalam

procrastinate, play for time, stall
സമയം ലാഭിക്കുക, വെെകിക്കുക, സമയം ലഭിക്കാൻവേണ്ടി അടവെടുക്കുക, താമസിപ്പിക്കുക, നീട്ടിവയ്ക്കുക, മാറ്റിവയ്ക്കുക

Antonyms of gain time

Forms of gain time

Noun
pluralgain times
Verb
third-person singular presentgains time
present participlegaining time
past participlegained time
pastgained time

Questions about gain time

What does gain time mean?
Gain time means a reduction of a prisoner’s sentence due to exemplary behavior or participation in a rehabilitation program during incarceration.
What is gain time in Malayalam?
Gain time in Malayalam is സമയം ലാഭിക്കുക, വെെകിക്കുക, സമയം ലഭിക്കാൻവേണ്ടി അടവെടുക്കുക. See Gain time meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is gain time?
Gain time can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of gain time?
The plural of gain time is gain times.

Words near gain time in the dictionary

  1. gain on
  2. gain one's spurs
  3. gain over
  4. gain steam
  5. gain the wind
  6. gain time
  7. gain times
  8. gain traction
  9. gain twist
  10. gain twists
  11. gain upon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gain time (page history and authors); gain time (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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