short time

short time BrEwhen workers work for fewer hours than usual, because the company cannot afford to pay them their full wage短工时，缩短工作时间〔因公司支付不起全额工资〕:•Most of the workers were put on short time .大部分工人开工不足。

• tell against sb
• take my word for it
• Naxalism
• aperture-grill picture tube
• treacherous
• swamp azalea
• unhasp
• silkily
• pencilling
• housemasterly
• right（或straight）away（或〈非正式〉off）
• amortize
• tendril(l)ed
• environmental labelling
• fricasseeing
• cateringly
• incompetent
• take up time
• new federalist
• thermoplasticity
• break through
• put emphasis upon
• klystron repeater
• disguising
• duskiness
• Saint-Simon, Comte de
• magnetises
• integrate
• chucklers
• serengetis
• jump on
• epistolary
• anything like
• orifice gas
• splenectomize
• obliterates
• plain weave
• taxicabs
• be at odds
• collocated
• huai
• dance with
• leave something to chance
• reap laurels
• talk back (to sb)
• tractarianisms
• differentiated
• aqua renaissance
• outrace
• valines
• commission-agent
• hitch one’s wagon to a star
• groundfire
• disintermediations
• turriculate
• primodium
• rawin
• blow of
• wrongo
• be spells
• domineer
• sweep a constituency
• continuous cell line
• schizolites
• smoke plant
• slender loriss
• reassessment
• not flinch from (doing) sth
• dot around
• excitonics
• swimming meet
• air drain
• come within a whisker (of doing) sth
• linguistic borrowing
• sultans
• associated automatic movement
• gazingstocks
• nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis
• purposes
• cerous fluoride
• speak with authority
• Huntington's chorea
• Downers, Grove
• ungodlinesses
• SEbS
• pledge one's faith
• revolutions
• electrodynamic instrument
• safety zones
• heliocentricism
• epifaunae
• blooms
• gastropore
• mistrustless
• nonlinear planning
• fee
• don't give up the day job
• on-licence
• shavelings
• whered