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countdown

Definition

noun: the act of counting down the number of seconds that remain before something (such as the launch of a rocket) happens
noun: an audible backward 'counting' in fixed units (as seconds) from an arbitrary starting number to mark the time remaining before an event
usually singular

Examples

The engineers stopped the 'countdown' because something was wrong with the engine.
the 'countdown to' summer vacation
the steady 'countdown to' war

Movie clips

Movie quotes

(..) And if, for any reason, that my children do not get this money, a kind of... countdown will begin. Maybe a day or so later, maybe a week, a year, when you're going for a walk in Santa Fe or Manhattan or Prague, wherever, (..)
2013 TvShow: Breaking Bad Title: Felina Season: 5 Episode 16