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31time-consuming — UK US /ˈtaɪmkənˌsjuːmɪŋ/ adjective ► taking a lot of time to do or complete: »Commuting by car nowadays is much more time consuming than it used to be. »Employment tribunals are time consuming and expensive. »a time consuming process/task/job …
32time-consuming — also time consuming ADJ GRADED: oft it v link ADJ to inf If something is time consuming, it takes a lot of time. It s just very time consuming to get such a large quantity of data... Starting a new business, however small, is a time consuming… …
33Self-consuming — Self con*sum ing, a. Consuming one s self or itself. [1913 Webster] …
34time-consuming — adjective Date: 1600 1. using or taking up a great deal of time < time consuming chores > 2. wasteful of time < time consuming tactics > …
35all-consuming — adjective a) That consumes everything; that uses everything up. Google is the all consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them. b) Totally engrossing, using up all of ones time and energy. Editing a dictionary with… …
36time-consuming — [tīmkən so͞om΄iŋ, tīm kənsyo͞om΄iŋ] adj. using up much or too much time [a time consuming task] …
37all-consuming — UK US adjective so important or interesting to you that you cannot think of anything else his all consuming passion for the theatre Thesaurus: importantsynonym …
38Self-Consuming Artifacts — Self Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth Century Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972) is book of literary criticism by American literary critic Stanley Fish. In it, Fish examines various English writers from… …
39all-consuming — adj. All consuming is used with these nouns: ↑love, ↑passion …
40time-consuming — adj. Time consuming is used with these nouns: ↑process, ↑task …
