time savings

Minutes you keep

Time savings refers to the amount of time preserved or recovered by doing something more efficiently.

Unlike money savings, the plural form is standard even for a single instance: The new software resulted in a time savings of two hours per week.

The phrase emphasizes that time, like money, is a resource that can be spent, wasted, or saved.

Opposites
efficiency outcome

time savingswasted time

Hours spent unproductively

time loss · time sink · lost time · delays · inefficiency

resource management

time savingsprocrastination

Habitual task avoidance

dithering · dawdling · poor time management

process efficiency

time savingsinefficiency

Suboptimal use of resources

delays · bottlenecks · slowdowns · holdups · setbacks

Family

time, times, timed, timing, timely, untimely, timer, timers, overtime

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G