Meanings
- The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one minute.
With 30 minutesworth of labor, through trade, they get food that would take them 45 minutes of labor to produce at home.
1973, Edward Foster, Economics: an introductory program, McGraw-Hill Book Co., →ISBN, page 3683 more examples
YOU ARE A COMMERCIAL: You may be selling soap, socks or sausages. Yours is a short life but a merry one — full of testimonials testifying, jingles jingling and slogans slogging. You may be a minutesworth of whys and wherefores, or a bright and breezy 7 seconder.
1959, General Electric Company advert in New Scientist, page 509When, as happened several times that season, I was asked to address some particular topic, I would explain that as I hadn't five minutesworth to say just then on anything except my novel in progress
1984, John Barth, The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction[F]ly wheels with storage times of a few minutes looked 'very promising' for small to medium-size systems and flywheels that could hold ten minutesworth or more were 'likely to be very helpful in multi-megawatt multi-diesel grids.
1988, Modern Power Systems, page 31
Origin
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