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Double time   /dˈəbəl taɪm/   Listen
Double time

noun
1.
A fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog.
2.
A doubled wage (for working overtime).





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"Double time" Quotes from Famous Books



... the captain, turning towards his subaltern, who had stood a silent and pained witness of the scene. "He knows he is in the wrong and has no excuse; but he'll break out yet. Come! step out, you O'Grady!" he yelled after the rapidly-walking soldier. "Double time, sir. I can't wait here all night." And Mr. Billings noted that silence had fallen on the bivouac so full of soldier-chaff and laughter but a moment before, and that the men of both troops were intently watching the scene ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... pang of dismay. I diverged from my favourite straight line, which seemed to pierce into the bowels of the earth, sharp to the right. Soon or late after, I cannot tell, we were in the midst of a thin stream of people, mostly composed of boys and young women, going at double time, hooting and screaming with the delight of loosened animals, not quite so agreeably; but animals never hunted on a better scent. A dozen turnings in their company brought us in front of a fire. There we saw two houses preyed on by the flames, just as if a lion had his paws on a couple of ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


Words linked to "Double time" :   earnings, remuneration, pay, gait, pace, salary, wage


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