Timeout vs. time out In American and Canadian English, timeout is one word in sports-related contexts, where it means an official pause in the action. Timeouts is its plural. In all other uses, time out is a two-word noun phrase.

How do you use timeout in a sentence?

They called a timeout to set up a play but it broke down, and they called a timeout with three seconds left.

What does it mean to be in timeout?

: a short period of time when you stop doing something so that you can rest or do something else.