also time-out
(~s)
1.
In basketball, American football, ice hockey, and some other sports, when a team calls a ~, 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 ~ from a job or activity, you have a break from it and do something different instead.
He took ~ from campaigning to accompany his mother to dinner.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N from n, N to-inf