prime time
Noun
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Noun
prime time (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Spring.
- (obsolete) A new period or time of youthfulness; the beginning of something.
- (television, radio) The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 19:00 and 23:00
- (figurative) Maturity; the state at which a person or product will be accepted by the mainstream.
- 2000, Ira Brodsky, Network World, page 18
- It took years longer than proponents had hoped, but wireless data is ready for prime time.
- 2005, Leanna Stiefel, Measuring School Performance and Efficiency: Implications for Practice and Research, Eye On Education ISBN 9781596670068, page 13
- Can these measures be regarded as useful, promising, or not ready for prime time? We focus only on the utility of these measures for use by policymakers.
- 2007, John E. Richardson, Annual Editions: Marketing 08/09 ISBN 9780073369464
- Now, as more and more businesses re-orient themselves to serve the consumer, ethnography has entered prime time.
- 2008, J. Richard Kuzmyak, Forecasting Metropolitan Commercial and Freight Travel, Transportation Research Board ISBN 9780309098144, page 3
- And as with commodity-based models, tour-based models have also not yet reached prime time.
- 2000, Ira Brodsky, Network World, page 18
- French: première partie de soirée, heure de plus grande écoute
- German: Hauptsendezeit, Prime Time
- Portuguese: horário nobre
- Russian: прайм-та́йм
- Spanish: horario central, horario estelar, horario de máxima audiencia
prime time (not comparable)
- (television, radio) Showing during prime time.
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