time-out

1. 1.

   a brief suspension of play

   “each team has two time-outs left”

   Broaderpause

   Part ofathletic game

Questions about time-out

What does time-out mean?

time-out means "a brief suspension of play".

How many syllables are in time-out?

time-out has 2 syllables: ti-me-out. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪˌmaʊt/.

Is time-out a common word?

time-out is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.