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making good time

making good time is the present participle and gerund of make good time.

Meaning of make good time

Verb

make good time (third-person singular simple present makes good time, present participle making good time, simple past and past participle made good time)

  1. To proceed at a good pace.
    • From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is...1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731
  2. To arrive in good time.
  3. To use one's time efficiently.

Questions about making good time

What is making good time the present participle and gerund of?
Making good time is the present participle and gerund of make good time.

Words near making good time in the dictionary

  1. making game of
  2. making garden
  3. making good
  4. making good on
  5. making good one's running
  6. making good time
  7. making ground
  8. making happen
  9. making hard work of
  10. making haste
  11. making haste slowly

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