Usually means: Pause to enforce rules, behavior.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. timeout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Timeout, timeout: Wordnik
  3. timeout: Wiktionary
  4. timeout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. timeout: Dictionary.com
  6. timeout: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. TimeOut, Timeout (computing): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. timeout: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. timeout: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. timeout: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. timeout: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. timeout: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. timeout: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. timeout: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (communication) The allowed maximal time for a process to end normally.
noun:  (communication) The intentional termination of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.
noun:  (sports) Alternative form of time-out [(sports) A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc.]

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