good time

good time (countable and uncountable, plural good times)

1. (countable) A period of time spent doing some pleasant, enjoyable or entertaining activity.
2. (uncountable) The reduction of a prisoner's sentence for good conduct while imprisoned.
   • 1984 August 18, R. L. Richardson, “Women In Cages”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 7:

     Sex on female units is treated as a "disgusting and degrading practice," and women have lost accrued good-time and gone to solitary confinement for as little as a peck on the cheek.

3. A suitable time.
   • 2022 January 12, Christian Wolmar, “A new year... but the same old mistakes are being made”, in RAIL, number 948, pages 40–41:

     How can the unions - or more specifically the RMT - possibly think this is a good time to exert a bit of industrial muscle and indulge in strikes both on the national railway and the London Underground?

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