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minutesworth

minutesworth noun: the amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one minute.

Noun

minutesworth (plural minutesworth)

  1. The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one minute.
    • YOU ARE A COMMERCIAL: You may be selling soap, socks or sausages. Yours is a short life but a merry one — full of testimonials testifying, jingles jingling and slogans slogging. You may be a minutesworth of whys and wherefores, or a bright and breezy 7 seconder.1959, General Electric Company advert in New Scientist, page 509
    • With 30 minutesworth of labor, through trade, they get food that would take them 45 minutes of labor to produce at home.1973, Edward Foster, Economics: an introductory program, McGraw-Hill Book Co., →ISBN, page 368

Forms of minutesworth

pluralminutesworth

Origin of minutesworth

From minute + -s- + -worth.

Questions about minutesworth

What does minutesworth mean?
Minutesworth means the amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one minute.
What part of speech is minutesworth?
Minutesworth is a noun.
What is the plural of minutesworth?
The plural of minutesworth is minutesworth.

Words near minutesworth in the dictionary

  1. minutes of angle
  2. minutes of arc
  3. minutesful
  4. minuteslong
  5. minutest
  6. minutesworth
  7. minutia
  8. minutiae
  9. minutial
  10. minuting
  11. minutiose

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