in season

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in season

1. [of a game animal] subject to legal hunting. You cannot shoot ducks. They are not in season.

2. [of a female animal] ready to breed; in estrus; in heat. The cat's in season again.

3. to be currently available for selling. (Some foods and other things are available only at certain seasons. *Typically: be ~; come [into] ~.) Oysters are available in season. Strawberries aren't in season in January.

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If his meal is not ready in season, he takes his rifle, hies to the forest or prairie, shoots his own game, lights his fire, and cooks his repast. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context Marmaduke was apprised of all these preparations by letter, and it was especially arranged that he and Elizabeth should arrive in season to participate in the solemnities of the evening. The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context "I know," he thought, "that fashion not only in him, but in all city people, who, after being twice in ten years in the country, pick up two or three phrases and use them in season and out of season, firmly persuaded that they know all about it. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context			in progress in proportion in public in pursuit of in quest of in question in rags in rare form in reality in receipt of in recent memory in reduced circumstances in reference to in rehearsal in relation to in remission in reserve in retrospect in return in return for in right mind in round numbers in ruins in safe hands in salad days in season in second childhood in secret in service in session in seventh heaven in shadow in shambles in shoes in short in short order in short supply in sight in sights in single file in situ in small doses in so many words in some neck of the woods in some respects in some transaction for in spades in spare time in spite of in spitting distance in stead			in salad days In Salah In Samenwerking Met In School Enhanced Learning Program In School Isolation In School Restriction In School Suspension Room In score In Scotice In Scotice in se recipere In Search Of In Search Of In Search Of Apollo In Search of Excellence In Search of Excellent Requirements In Search of Humans In Search of Lost Time in search of seeking or hunting in search of someone or something In Search of Space In Search of Sunrise In Search of the Lost Chord In Search of the Miraculous In Search of Truth In Searth of the Knowlege in season in second childhood in secret in secret In self-defense in senses in senses in senses in senses in sequence in series in series in series in series in series in service in service In Service Date In Service Failure In Service In Reserve In Service Inspection In Service Measurement In Service Reliability Demonstration In Service Review In Service Software Upgrade In Service Support System In Service to the Dream In Service Withdrawal In Service Withdrawals in session in set form

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