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  1. idleness, idling, loafingnoun

    having no employment

    Synonyms:
    faineance, groundlessness, idleness, loafing

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  1. List of paraphrases for "idling":

    idle

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  1. Matt Smith:

    We're seeing ships idling off the coast of China, Singapore, (the) Arab Gulf, and now the U.S. Gulf. It appears that the glut of supply in the global market is only getting worse.

  2. Jerome K. Jerome:

    It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.

  3. Tammy Duckworth:

    Farmers across Illinois and throughout the Midwest are hurting and ethanol plants are idling while this administration is abusing the small refinery exemption program to undermine the bipartisan Renewable Fuel Standard.

  4. Getty Images:

    It is automobiles leading the way, car idling leading the way, but outside of cars idling, and we need to make sure we enforce the idling law, I think the city is getting cleaner.

  5. Chuck Warta:

    We're idling some assets, but we're shifting those resources into a different type of production that is more positioned to serve the market.


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