גֶּזֶל זְמַן (גָּזַל מִזְּמַנּוֹ)

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Theft of time (to take up someone’s time unfairly).

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Wasting time for a purposeless aim.

("For behold, theft of an object is theft, and theft of time is theft: if one steals the object and performs a mitzvah with it, his advocate becomes his accuser; so too if one steals time and performs a mitzvah with it, his advocate becomes his accuser." - Sefer Mesillat Yesharim, Chapter 11)