What is "time-tested"

Usage examples of "time-tested".

It was a simple but time-tested scam: Bribes allegedly were funneled to judges in exchange for reducing criminal bonds, suppressing evidence and divulging confidential police information.

To achieve this success, Ingram and his associates did not break new ground in management theory but, rather, borrowed time-tested ideas from other large industries and applied them to the hamburger business.

Both fighters understand, at this point, that Ali has already tried what he and his handlers felt was the best strategy for dealing with Leon: that was the time-tested rope-a-dope, which assumed that a frenzied, undisciplined fighter like Spinks would punch himself out in the early rounds, like George Foreman, and become a tired sitting duck for Ali by the time the bell rang for number ten.