time off

Idioms: time off

A break from one's employment or school, as in I need some time off from teaching to work on my dissertation, or He took time off to make some phone calls. [First half of 1900s]

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a time period when you are not required to work
Antonym: work time (meaning #1)

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	leave
	compensatory time
	Off Time (business term)

	The secretary spent her 35 hour work week in this manner 15 of her time sorting mail 17 of her time filing letters and of her time typing The rest of her time she acted as a receptionist The? Read answer...
	You are looking for a song that you don't know the name of it or the artist I heard it on VH1 classics It's goes time only time if only time if only now I am trying to give if only time that I know? Read answer...
	When asked the time of the day a problem-posing professor answered If you add one-eighth of the time from noon until now to one-quarter the time from now until noon tomorrow you get the time exact? Read answer...

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		Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more
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