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off-duty
[ awf-doo-tee, -dyoo-, of- ]
adjective
- not engaged in the performance of one's usual work:
an off-duty police officer.
- of, relating to, or during a period when a person is not at work.
Word History and Origins
Origin of off-duty1
Idioms and Phrases
see under on duty .Example Sentences
The Colombian government says that the Gulf Clan ordered its members to kill on- and off-duty police officers and soldiers in revenge for these operations.
An off-duty doctor stopped to help and Arran was airlifted the to hospital in Newcastle.
The off-duty firefighter was part of a group of four men in their 20s who had set out that evening to free dive, which involves swimming underwater without breathing apparatus or scuba tanks.
National Park Service staffing cuts prompted off-duty rangers and residents to protest at national parks nationwide, including Joshua Tree and the Santa Monica Mountains.
Monday and “off-duty, uniformed officers working security for the business heard the gunshots and called for assistance.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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