Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
off-duty \off-duty\ adj. not performing or available for duties at the given moment; as, an off-duty policeman. Oposite of on-duty, working, and on-the-job. [prenominal]
Syn: off duty(predicate).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
prep.phr. (alternative spelling of off duty English)
WordNet
adj. not performing or scheduled for duties; "He's off every Tuesday"; "he was off duty when it happened"; "an off-duty policeman" [syn: off(p), off duty(p), off-duty(a)]
Usage examples of "off-duty".
The blackcabber had come into her life three weeks ago at the Nightingales cafe, where all the cabbers hung out when off-duty.
Five minutes later I was in a gogo bar on Broadway, discussing inflation with an off-duty stripper called Cindi.
Going off-duty at midnight, I was always itchy, restless, in no mood to go home and sleep.
Though he pretended to be just another one of the jihadi soldier-engineers during off-duty hours, Vor had made it clear that he had to begin construction on the military outpost up the coast.
Hillrun rousted off-duty legionnaires out of their racks, an alarm started to bleat, and a T-2 lumbered toward the rear of the embassy.
He stopped at the table where Kel, Zamiel, Tobe and some off-duty soldiers ate.
At the other booths sit lone disconsolate men with the pink, apologetic eyes and the faintly grimy shirts and shiny ties of bookkeepers, and a few battered couples making the most Friday-night whoopee they can afford, and some trios of off-duty whores.
Up front, the off-duty bettors were crowded around the screen, waiting to see the foursome hit their tee shots.
The extra trainman, a tall, gimlet-eyed individual presumably off-duty and traveling for pleasure, had shown a railroad-pass when the real-conductor came through to collect tickets.
To anyone other than me, my lone ranger probably looked like a forty-odd-year-old off-duty photocopier I repairman on his way to play candlepins at the local bowling alley.
The dayroom, situated across the main corridor from the passenger cabin, was our off-duty spot.
The ward sister informed Dunworthy grimly that she was going off-duty, and a much smaller and more cheerful blonde nurse, wearing the insignia of a student, came in to check the drips and look at the displays.
Off-duty sports writers from the News-Miner had been enjoying a few beers at a nearby lodge and had spotted the driverless team as it went by.
A place where any and all off-duty lawmen were welcome to sit on the tailgates of pickup trucks, drink beer, eat fajitas and shoot the breeze.
From there I found the main square and asked an off-duty trooper where the Finest were quartered.