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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).
adverb
1.
At a faster speed.  Synonym: double quick.





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"Double time" Quotes from Famous Books



... another," continued McCloud, climbing from one wheel to another of the wagon. "There is a thousand dollars in this load! I know you've got good men, Sinclair. If they are not getting paid as they should be, give them time and a half or double time, but put it in the pay checks. The freight loss and damage account increased two hundred per cent. last year. No railroad company can keep that rate up ...
— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman
... the head. All are on foot. "Left front into line, double time;" the first company throws its long double rank from curb to curb, Drummond, its commander, striding at its front; Wing, his subaltern, anxiously watching him from among the file-closers. Already they have reached the rearmost of the rioting groups and, with warning cries ...
— Foes in Ambush • Charles King
... about Shakespeare, Tennyson and Browning. Miss Quincey was always dipping into those poets now, always drawing water from the wells of literature. By the way, she was head over heels in debt to Sordello, and was working double time to pay him off. She reported her progress with glee. It was "only a hundred and thirty-eight more pages, Dr. Cautley. In forty-six days ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... if you felt like I do," she moaned. "If there was another tower, we'd have to spend double time looking at it, and in five minutes more I should have to faint! Oh no, I've stood everything so far, not to disappoint any one, but ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson


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