time-motion study

1. 1.

   an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort

   Synonymstime and motion studytime-and-motion studymotion studytime studywork study

   Broaderexamination

Questions about time-motion study

What does time-motion study mean?

time-motion study means "an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort".

What is another word for time-motion study?

Close synonyms include time and motion study, time-and-motion study, motion study, time study, work study. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is time-motion study a common word?

time-motion study is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.