Usually means: Pause for behavior correction, reflection.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. time-out: Merriam-Webster
  2. time-out: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. time-out, time-out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. time-out: Vocabulary.com
  5. Time-Out, Time-out, time-out: Wordnik
  6. time-out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. time-out: Wiktionary
  8. time-out: Rhymezone
  9. time-out: FreeDictionary.org
  10. time-out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. time-out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. time-out: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  13. time-out: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. time-out: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. time-out: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. time-out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. time-out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. time-out: Idioms

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Time-out: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (time-out)

noun:  (sports) A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc.
noun:  (childish) A break from a tense, heated or stressful situation (often enforced, sometimes as a disciplinary measure); a cooling-off period.
noun:  (communication) The abortion of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.

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