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Double Time

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Noun

1. double time

a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog

2. double time

a doubled wage (for working overtime)

Adverb

3. double quick, double time

at a faster speed

Example Sentences:
'now let's play the piece again double-quick'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Double Time

see synonyms of double time
noun
1. 
a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
2. music
a. 
a time twice as fast as an earlier section
b. 
two beats per bar
3. 
a slow running pace, keeping in step
4. US army
a fast march of 180 paces to the minute
verb double-time
5. 
to move or cause to move in double time
verb (intransitive)
to move in double time
Stone double-timed up the stairs to the third floor.

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Double Time

see synonyms of double time
1.  US
a rate of payment twice as high as usual, as for work on Sundays
2. 
a marching cadence of 180 three-foot steps a minute: normal cadence is 120 steps a minute
3.  Music
a. 
duple time
b. 
twice as fast as the preceding tempo

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Double Time

see synonyms of double time
n.
1. A marching pace of 180 steps per minute.
2. A rate of pay, as for overtime work, that is twice the regular rate.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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