also time-out
( time outs)
1.
In basketball, American football, ice hockey, and some other sports, when a team calls a time out , they call a stop to the game for a few minutes in order to rest and discuss how they are going to play.
N-VAR
2.
If you take time out from a job or activity, you have a break from it and do something different instead.
He took time out from campaigning to accompany his mother to dinner.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N from n , N to-inf