minutesworth

minutesworth

English

Etymology

From minute +‎ -s- +‎ -worth.

Noun

minutesworth (uncountable)

1. The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one minute.
   • 1959, General Electric Company advert in New Scientist, page 509

     YOU ARE A COMMERCIAL: You may be selling soap, socks or sausages. Yours is a short life but a merry one — full of testimonials testifying, jingles jingling and slogans slogging. You may be a minutesworth of whys and wherefores, or a bright and breezy 7 seconder.

   • 1973, Edward Foster, Economics: an introductory program, McGraw-Hill Book Co. →ISBN, page 368

     With 30 minutesworth of labor, through trade, they get food that would take them 45 minutes of labor to produce at home.

   • 1984, John Barth, The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

     When, as happened several times that season, I was asked to address some particular topic, I would explain that as I hadn't five minutesworth to say just then on anything except my novel in progress

   • 1988, Modern Power Systems, page 31

     [F]ly wheels with storage times of a few minutes looked 'very promising' for small to medium-size systems and flywheels that could hold ten minutesworth or more were 'likely to be very helpful in multi-megawatt multi-diesel grids.