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after-hours
[ af-ter-ouuhrz, -ou-erz, ahf- ]
adjective
- occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business:
an after-hours drinking club.
Word History and Origins
Origin of after-hours1
Idioms and Phrases
After normal working hours, after closing time; also, after legal or established opening hours. For example, I haven't time while the shop is open, but I can see you after hours , or The restaurant employees sometimes stayed for a meal after hours . This term originally referred to laws governing business hours. It also gave rise to the term after-hours club , for a drinking club that remained open later than similar establishments. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
The stock dropped 15 percent in after-hours trading Tuesday and the carnage continued Wednesday morning.
I used to work at a Tower Records and shot a film after-hours there.
She seemed to be enjoying it, too, judging by this amazing photo of her and Plaza after-hours.
Only a policeman would know where the after-hours joints were open in this kind of a town.
Shortly after the announcement, Washington Post shares were up 4.5 percent in after-hours trading.
In order to expedite the work, it was desirable to induce the men to work after-hours.
To-morrow the fault shall be corrected, and the swings that are made in after-hours now give fair promise of a great change.
I do not know how the dinner, or rather the after-hours of it, had lengthened.
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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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