off-timeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

off-time (not comparable)

1. (social psychology) Occurring at a time other than the normal point in the process of growth and development.
   • 1987, Roberta G. Simmons, Dale A. Blyth, Moving Into Adolescence, →ISBN:

     In the literature these "off-time" youngsters have been termed "early" and "late" developers (Petersen and Taylor, 1980).

   • 1990, Morris Rosenberg, Ralph H. Turner, Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives, →ISBN, page 148:

     In addition to role discontinuity and lack of preparation for new roles, it appears that being "off-time" in taking on new roles or disengaging from old ones may make transitions more stressful, and that taking on multiple roles may be more difficult for the individual than a transition to only one new role or role-set.

   • 2013, Eileen Berlin Ray, Communication and Disenfranchisement: Social Health Issues and Implications., →ISBN:

     An off-time transition is difficult to deal with because no norms of behavior or social rituals exist to guide the person experiencing the change.

2. Out of sync; unsynchronized.
   • 2013, James W. Barron, Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, →ISBN:

     Better, said he, were “marches with college tunes in the trio [final section] against the original themes” creating an amusing “off-key and off-time” agglomeration of sound (Ives, 1976, p.41).

   • 2015, Ulisse Di Corpo, Antonella Vannini, SYNTROPY: The Spirit of Love, →ISBN, page 30:

     All told, some 30 subjects generated over 1.5 million trials in the remote and off-time experiments.

   • 2015, Myron Levine, Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age, →ISBN:

     Reformers argued that the off-year or off-time (or off-cycle) scheduling of elections for school board and other local offices allows voters to focus on the issues unique to the race at hand.

副詞

off-time (not comparable)

1. Occurring at a non-normal time.
   • 2014, E. Mark Cummings, Anita L. Greene, Katherine H. Karraker, Life-span Developmental Psychology, →ISBN:

     In general, those life events taking place early off-time have greater negative impact than those taking place late off-time.

アナグラム

• time off, time-off