English Dictionary

time bank

名詞

カナダ英語

A system for reciprocal volunteering that uses time as the unit of currency.

日本語の意味

時間を通貨として、ボランティアの相互交換を行う制度・システム / ボランティア活動の対価を勤務時間で表し、互いに交換する仕組み

Our neighborhood started a time bank where residents exchange an hour of childcare for an hour of gardening help.

私たちの近所では、住民同士が子どもの世話1時間と庭仕事1時間を交換する時間交換制度を始めました。

意味（1）

A system for reciprocal volunteering that uses time as the unit of currency.

Thanks to the Time Bank launched there in 2000, patients can now be prescribed if appropriate - not just with the usual pharmacological armoury - but with a friendly visit once a week, or a lift to the shops, or small repairs at home.

意味（2）

(Canada) A system in which an employer keeps track of overtime hours that can later be redeemed as either money or as time off with pay.

In British Columbia, where an employee requests it in writing, and employer may establish a time bank for the employee and credit overtime wages to the time bank instead of paying them to the employee.

意味（3）

(poker) A player's allotment of additional time in online poker games.

time banks （ plural ）