off duty

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off duty

not working at one's job. (The opposite of on duty.) I'm sorry, I can't talk to you until I'm off duty. The police officer couldn't help me because he was off duty.

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Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context "I think they have been trying to keep us apart," she continued, "for whenever you have been off duty one of the older women of Tars Tarkas' retinue has always arranged to trump up some excuse to get Sola and me out of sight. A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context The zealous officer managed to slip a useful piece of paper into Dominic's hand as he went ashore, and a few hours afterwards, being off duty, he returned on board again athirst for drinks and gratitude. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context			of late of mature years of note of old of one mind of own accord of own making of service of sorts of the essence of the first water of the moment of the old school of the persuasion of the sort of two minds off off and running off artist off balance off base off campus off center off chance off course off duty off game off goes off hands off like a shot off limits off on a sidetrack off on the right foot off on the wrong foot off own bat off rocker off season off the air off the back of a lorry off the bat off the beaten path off the beaten track off the books off the charts off the cuff off the face of the earth off the hook off the mark off the peg off the rack off the record			Off campus college transport Off Campus Credit Program Off Campus Degree Program Off Campus Dining Network Off Campus Dons Off Campus Housing Assistance Off Campus Housing Office Off Campus Jams Off Campus Learning Off Campus Lunch Off Campus Residents' Association Off Campus Student Association Off Campus Student Committee Off Campus Writers' Workshop off case off case off case off case off center off chance off chance off chump OFF CL off colour Off Course Off Course Alarm Off da Hook Off Design Mission Gross Weight off duty Off Duty Fire Fighter Off Duty Officers, Inc Off Duty Police Officer Off Duty Safety Awareness Presentation Off Exchange off face off face off face off face off feed off feed off feed off feed off feet off feet off feet off feet Off Floor Order Off Floor Orders Off for A Bite off form off form off form off form off from work off game off game off game off game off game

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