"lose time" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loses time",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "losing time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lost time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lost time",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lose<,,lost> time"
      },
      "expansion": "lose time (third-person singular simple present loses time, present participle losing time, simple past and past participle lost time)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gain time"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To run slow and not keep accurate time."
      ],
      "id": "en-lose_time-en-verb-P4gVEH2o",
      "links": [
        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "accurate",
          "accurate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a clock) To run slow and not keep accurate time."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a clock"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "75 3 21",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a clock: to go slow and not keep accurate time",
          "word": "jätättää"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "keep time"
        },
        {
          "word": "lose no time"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 50 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925, DH Lawrence, “The Willful Woman”, in St. Mawr and Other Stories, page 1",
          "text": "On the third day the train lost time more and more. She raged with painful impatience. No good, at every station the train sat longer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132",
          "text": "There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fall behind schedule."
      ],
      "id": "en-lose_time-en-verb-2QXdKLhD",
      "links": [
        [
          "fall",
          "fall"
        ],
        [
          "behind",
          "behind"
        ],
        [
          "schedule",
          "schedule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person etc.) To fall behind schedule."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person etc."
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a person etc.: to fall behind schedule",
          "word": "jäädä jälkeen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a person etc.: to fall behind schedule",
          "word": "myöhästyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "of a person etc.: to fall behind schedule",
          "word": "perder tempo"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To waste time."
      ],
      "id": "en-lose_time-en-verb-ac~Z6-on",
      "links": [
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lose time"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loses time",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "losing time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lost time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lost time",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lose<,,lost> time"
      },
      "expansion": "lose time (third-person singular simple present loses time, present participle losing time, simple past and past participle lost time)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gain time"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To run slow and not keep accurate time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "accurate",
          "accurate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a clock) To run slow and not keep accurate time."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a clock"
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "keep time"
        },
        {
          "word": "lose no time"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925, DH Lawrence, “The Willful Woman”, in St. Mawr and Other Stories, page 1",
          "text": "On the third day the train lost time more and more. She raged with painful impatience. No good, at every station the train sat longer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132",
          "text": "There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fall behind schedule."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fall",
          "fall"
        ],
        [
          "behind",
          "behind"
        ],
        [
          "schedule",
          "schedule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person etc.) To fall behind schedule."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person etc."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To waste time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a clock: to go slow and not keep accurate time",
      "word": "jätättää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a person etc.: to fall behind schedule",
      "word": "jäädä jälkeen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a person etc.: to fall behind schedule",
      "word": "myöhästyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "of a person etc.: to fall behind schedule",
      "word": "perder tempo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lose time"
}