compás de espera

Spanish

Noun

compás de espera m (plural compases de espera)

1. (music) bar of silence
2. (idiomatic) dead time; timeout; period of waiting or of no action

Further reading

• “compás de espera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28