Meaning & use
bandwidth
The capacity of a network to transmit data, or, informally, a person's available time and mental energy.
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Streaming several videos at once used up most of the household's internet bandwidth.
I don't have the bandwidth to take on another project until next month.
A note on using this word
Bandwidth's informal meaning of personal capacity for time or attention has become common in workplace speech, borrowed from its technical, computing sense.
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