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Definition of Time bomb

1. Noun. A problematic situation that will eventually become dangerous if not addressed. "The refugee camp is a ticking bomb waiting to go off"

2. Noun. A bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time.

Definition of Time bomb

1. Noun. A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time. ¹

2. Noun. (context: by extension) A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Time Bomb

time and again time and material time and materials time and motion studies time and motion study time and tide time and tide wait for no man time and time again time attack time average

time ball time being time bill time bills time bomb (current term) time bombs time capsule time capsules time clock time clocks

time code time codes time compensation gain time complexities time complexity time constant time delay time delays time deposit

Literary usage of Time bomb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. America on the Ice: Antarctic Policy Issues by Frank G. Klotz (1998)
"The Sovereignty time bomb The ultimate challenge to the current Antarctic Treaty system is the very problem which gave rise to the treaty in the first ..."

2. Savings Bond Advisor by Tom Adams (2007)
"Chapter 14 Managing the deferred-tax time bomb Your marginal tax rate The tax-deferral feature of Savings Bonds What is the deferred-tax time bomb? ..."

3. Microcomputer Security by David J. Stang (1991)
"In the cue of a time bomb, the event is a certain system date, whereas for a ... If the vims contains a time bomb mechanism, the infected programs would ..."

4. Computer Viruses by David J. Stang (1991)
"While a time bomb can be built into any software, we can also look at time-triggered viruses. Many viruses trigger on Friday the 13th, including the 1720, ..."

5. Terrorist Group Profiles (1993)
"September 1981 — Ambushed, with automatic weapons, five members of a US Mobile Training Team and exploded a time bomb on the second floor of the National ..."

6. State of the Nation: South Africa 20052006 by Sakhela Buhlungu (2006)
"... in which he warned that 'South Africa is sitting on a time bomb of poverty and social disintegration' and appealed for 'a full understanding ..."

7. Rice Science: Innovations and Impact for Livelihood by T. W. Mew, International Rice Research Institute (2003)
"From this economic perspective, the food security time bomb in Indonesia's ... Instead, the time bomb is poverty and the failure to restructure Indonesia's ..."

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