What's a word for how long it takes to do something?
I'm trying to track how long it takes to do individual tasks throughout the day. I'm tracking it in Excel and want a single word for the time it took from beginning to completion to use in the column header. Thanks!
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I'm trying to track how long it takes to do individual tasks throughout the day. I'm tracking it in Excel and want a single word for the time it took from beginning to completion to use in the column header. Thanks!
adverbs
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Duration? If not that word, have you looked up duration in a thesaurus or googled for synonyms? Also, you've used the tag "adverbs" (words like recently, thoroughly, soon): are you sure that's what you're after? "How long it takes" sounds like you're after a noun (hence my suggestion of duration), and nouns or noun phrases are what's normally used for a column header.
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I'm trying to track how long it takes to do individual tasks throughout the day. I'm tracking it in Excel and want a single word for the time it took from beginning to completion to use in the column header. Thanks!
adverbs
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Duration? If not that word, have you looked up duration in a thesaurus or googled for synonyms? Also, you've used the tag "adverbs" (words like recently, thoroughly, soon): are you sure that's what you're after? "How long it takes" sounds like you're after a noun (hence my suggestion of duration), and nouns or noun phrases are what's normally used for a column header.
– Chappo
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Duration? If not that word, have you looked up duration in a thesaurus or googled for synonyms? Also, you've used the tag "adverbs" (words like recently, thoroughly, soon): are you sure that's what you're after? "How long it takes" sounds like you're after a noun (hence my suggestion of duration), and nouns or noun phrases are what's normally used for a column header.
– Chappo
1 hour ago
Duration? If not that word, have you looked up duration in a thesaurus or googled for synonyms? Also, you've used the tag "adverbs" (words like recently, thoroughly, soon): are you sure that's what you're after? "How long it takes" sounds like you're after a noun (hence my suggestion of duration), and nouns or noun phrases are what's normally used for a column header.
– Chappo
1 hour ago
Duration? If not that word, have you looked up duration in a thesaurus or googled for synonyms? Also, you've used the tag "adverbs" (words like recently, thoroughly, soon): are you sure that's what you're after? "How long it takes" sounds like you're after a noun (hence my suggestion of duration), and nouns or noun phrases are what's normally used for a column header.
– Chappo
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I would use:
duration:
the length of time that something lasts or continues
-- Collins English Dictionary
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I would use:
duration:
the length of time that something lasts or continues
-- Collins English Dictionary
answered 4 hours ago
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I would use:
duration:
the length of time that something lasts or continues
-- Collins English Dictionary
answered 4 hours ago
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I would use:
duration:
the length of time that something lasts or continues
-- Collins English Dictionary
answered 4 hours ago
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I would use:
duration:
the length of time that something lasts or continues
-- Collins English Dictionary
answered 4 hours ago
michael.hor257k
11.5k41838
answered 4 hours ago
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answered 4 hours ago
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Duration? If not that word, have you looked up duration in a thesaurus or googled for synonyms? Also, you've used the tag "adverbs" (words like recently, thoroughly, soon): are you sure that's what you're after? "How long it takes" sounds like you're after a noun (hence my suggestion of duration), and nouns or noun phrases are what's normally used for a column header.
– Chappo
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