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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How to use time off in a sentence

  • Since then I have propounded the question to others, and have yet to find any one who could explain that change of time off-hand.

    In Pastures Green | Peter McArthur