- a long, narrow opening, into which you put or fit something
- to put some coins in the slot
Extra Examples- He slid a coin into the slot of the jukebox.
- The electricity was on a slot meter.
- a position, a time or an opportunity for somebody/something, for example in a list, a programme of events or a series of broadcasts
- He has a regular slot on the late-night programme.
- Their album has occupied the Number One slot for the past six weeks.
- the airport’s take-off and landing slots
Extra Examples- They have a prime time slot on national radio.
- We need something to fill a thirty-minute slot in the late evening.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘slight depression running down the middle of the chest’, surviving as a Scots term): from Old French esclot, of obscure origin.
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