polychronie
| 01:31 Dec 23, 2000 |
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| na | multiple employment sounds better for what you understand. |
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| na | doing more than one thing at a time, doing several things at once |
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| na | multi-tasking |
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2 hrs
multiple employment sounds better for what you understand. Explanation: However, is this not rather "simultaneous employments"? In the sense of "at the same time". In the first case you could have one job in the morning and another in the afternoon, but having two different jobs in the morning... I really don't know the context of your work, but look into it. |
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3 hrs
doing more than one thing at a time, doing several things at once Explanation: "Le temps est devenu le bien le plus précieux pour les Américains ; une enquête de 1996 montrait que 40% d'entre eux considéraient que le manque de temps était un problème plus grave que le manque d'argent. Le pourcentage d'Américains de plus de 18 ans qui se sentent «toujours pressés» est passé de 22% en 1971 à 27% en 1982 et 35% en 1992. Ils ont répondu à cette situation en accélérant leurs activités, en remplaçant des tâches habituelles par d'autres pouvant s'effectuer en moins de temps et en pratiquant la «polychronie», c'est-à-dire faire plusieurs choses en même temps." "Polychrony" gives 9 Google hits, only one of which seems to have anything to do with this; the others concern the sciences or literary theory. Reference: http://www.eurotechnopolis.org/fr/bookstore/lettre12.htm |
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2 days 15 hrs
multi-tasking Explanation: Multi-tasking is the normal term for what is described in Jon Zuber's excellent find, above. Please give him the credit!!! Jon Zuber |
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