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downtimes

noun

plural of downtime
as in winters
a period of often involuntary inactivity or idleness a knee operation that could result in months of downtime for the ski racer

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Recent Examples of downtimes These trends often materialize in batch changeovers, supplier changes, line downtimes and traceability challenges. — Ihor Yurchenko, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 The average response time for phone calls dropped to 6 minutes from 30 minutes in the prior fiscal year; field office wait times decreased to 23 minutes; and removal of online service downtimes has benefited an additional 125,000 users in a single week, according to the agency's findings. — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for downtimes
  1. winters
  2. layoffs
  3. breaks
  4. lulls
  5. interruptions
Noun
  • The couple married on August 15, 2026, in McCall, Idaho, where Kendall’s family has spent winters skiing and summers on Payette Lake for years.
    — Alexandra Macon, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Phasing over our area happens to be very common during El Niño winters.
    — Matthew Villafane, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of winters
Noun
  • Privately, even with layoffs looming once the companies are merged, the ambitious Democrats were wobbly kneed in this corporate game of chicken that MAGA-friendly Ellison would leave them holding the bag jut before the midterms.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The team’s cost-cutting measures, which included more than 400 layoffs, helped the club post a $30 million operating profit, versus a loss of $24 million in the year prior.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of layoffs
Noun
  • Tuesday continues to be a transition day with clouds and limited breaks of sunshine.
    — Steven Sosna, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The resort also could host children’s day camps and training programs for surfing and skateboarding during school breaks.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of breaks
Noun
  • There are no lulls in the storytelling and all the actors are wonderful and hungry and bring the heat.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Dull spells and lulls will crop up, building like waves, peaking, crashing, then dissipating.
    — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of lulls
Noun
  • Further supply interruptions could push oil prices to $150 or even $200 a barrel.
    — RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Practitioners describe them as brief interruptions in familiar patterns.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of interruptions

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“Downtimes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downtimes. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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