Crossword clues for off-peak
off-peak
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
off-peak
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At off-peak times senior citizens can use the sports centre at reduced rates.
▪ Take advantage of off-peak reductions for package holidays.
▪ Work on the highway will be done only during off-peak hours.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Check whether an off-peak electric storage heater or a gas fire might be better choice.
▪ Consumers can benefit because the heaters then use more of the cheaper off-peak electricity, and less of the expensive kind.
▪ During the summer off-peak months a proportion of gas is fed into storage units above and below ground.
▪ It's not expensive if you couple it to an off-peak Economy Seven meter.
▪ Many do not take full advantage of the various daytime, night and off-peak tariffs on offer from their electricity company.
▪ Peak-hour trams will run every six minutes, with off-peak services every 12 minutes.
▪ Public opinion sometimes erroneously accuses the partly empty, off-peak buses of being run inefficiently.
▪ Youngsters and the unemployed will be given 250 hours of free community use at off-peak times.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
off-peak
off-peak \off-peak\ adj. Having less than maximal use or demand or activity; -- of a period of time occurring as a defined part of a time cycle; as, off-peak telepone rates are available at night and on weekends; off-peak fares. [Narrower terms: off-season ] {peak
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
off-peak
a. During a period of less use or demand than the maximum (peak), generally overnight.
WordNet
off-peak
adj. of a period of less than maximal use or demand or activity; "off-peak telepone rates"; "off-peak fares" [ant: peak]
Usage examples of "off-peak".
This made economic sense, because Canada had lots of natural uranium and a great deal of hydroelectric power, and during off-peak times this surplus electricity could be used to separate deuterium from hydrogen by electrolysis to make heavy water.