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timeconsuming

timeconsuming is the alternative spelling of time-consuming.

Meaning of time-consuming

Adjective

time-consuming (comparative more time-consuming, superlative most time-consuming)

  1. Using significant amounts of time, especially in an unwanted and sometimes unwarranted manner.
    • However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in...2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11

Forms of timeconsuming

comparativemore timeconsuming
superlativemost timeconsuming

Questions about timeconsuming

What is timeconsuming the alternative spelling of?
Timeconsuming is the alternative spelling of time-consuming.

Words near timeconsuming in the dictionary

  1. timeclocks
  2. timecode
  3. timecoded
  4. timecodes
  5. timecoding
  6. timeconsuming
  7. timecourse
  8. timecourses
  9. timed
  10. timed exclusive
  11. timed exclusives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: timeconsuming (page history and authors); time-consuming (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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