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Unit 4 - Lesson 2

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to spend
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to waste one's time
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spare
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full-time
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to kill (the) time
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to save
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to pass
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to run out of time
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to take one's time
to spend
to spend
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to pass time in a particular manner or in a certain place

Grammatical Information:

ditransitive
to waste one's time
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/wˈeɪst wˈʌnz tˈaɪm/

to spend one's time doing things that are useless or unnecessary

spare
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(of time) available for hobbies and not taken up by activities or tasks

full-time
full-time
Adjective
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/ˈfʊɫˌtaɪm/

done for the usual hours in a working day or week

part-time
to [kill] (the|) time
to kill (the) time
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/kˈɪl ðə ɔːɹ tˈaɪm/
Collocation

to spend or use time in a way that does not achieve anything or have a particular goal

to save
to save
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to keep money to spend later

Grammatical Information:

transitive
to pass
to pass
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(of time) to go by

Grammatical Information:

intransitive
to run out of time
phrase
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/ɹˈʌn ˌaʊɾəv tˈaɪm/

to reach the point when there is no more time available to complete a task or achieve a goal

to [take] {one's} time
to take one's time
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/tˈeɪk wˈʌnz tˈaɪm/
Collocation

to spend as much as time one needs on doing something without hurrying

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