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An indefinite period of time simply means that there is no set duration.

For example: If you are told that you may be waiting indefinitely, your wait time could be as little as 10 minutes, 35, minutes, or as long as 2 hours, 3 days or anything at all, depending on where you're waiting.

At a doctor's office, it's not likely to go beyond a few hours, but waiting at home for a phone call or letter could take days or weeks.

If somebody told you to wait for 30 minutes, it would usually be around this time that you would question them as to why you're still waiting, then they'd have to tell you to wait even longer, and so forth.

When being told the wait time is indefinite, it prepares you for an uncertain and even quite a long waiting period.

Some parents will ground their children for a week if they have misbehaved.

After the week, the child knows that they can go outside again.

When they have been really bad, they may be grounded indefinitely.

Again, all this means is that it will continue until the parent says it's over.

Rather than having a set time of expiration. The punishment is a given until the parent sees behavioral improvement and decides to return their freedom to them.

As the time is not determined, this could also be for just a week, but probably a month or longer.

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