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quarter-time

quarter-time is the alternative form of quarter time.

Meaning of quarter time

Noun

quarter time (plural quarter times)

  1. The interval between the first and second quarters of a sports match.
    • Banks was sent off for the remainder of the game and Barrow received a yellow card for wrestling as the Kangas led by a solidarity point at quarter time.2019 Cameron Newbold and Tim Edmunds, Third quarter blitz guides Tigers to upset win Albany Advertiser, 12 May 2019. Accessed 13 May 2019.

Forms of quarter-time

pluralquarter-times

Phrases with quarter-time

Questions about quarter-time

What is quarter-time the alternative form of?
Quarter-time is the alternative form of quarter time.

Words near quarter-time in the dictionary

  1. quarter-staffs
  2. quarter-stave
  3. quarter-staves
  4. quarter-sucker
  5. quarter-suckers
  6. quarter-time
  7. quarter-times
  8. quarter-tone
  9. quarter-tones
  10. quarter-up price
  11. quarter-up prices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quarter-time (page history and authors); quarter time (page history and authors). 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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