Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
off-season \off-season\ adj. of or relating to a season of less than maximum demand; as, off-season hotel rates are lower.
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
n. 1 That part of the year when business is most slack and there are fewest clients or visitors 2 (context sports English) Period of time when regular competitions are not being held, or when an athlete is not participating in competitions.
WordNet
adj. not in the most active period; "off-season hotel rates are lower"
n. the season when travel is least active and rates are lowest [ant: high season]
Usage examples of "off-season".
In the off-season, she supplemented her income by renting out the tiny attic apartment.
In the off-season, between research trips to Washington, he had gone and messed with voodoo.
He wanted to put at least a hundred miles between them and that cabin, and headed toward an area Just populated enough, he hoped, to have motels open in the off-season.
The off-season vacation package—airfare, hotel and continental breakfast included—had been a surprise thirtieth birthday gift from Davey’s father to his wife.
Her lessons had taken place at low altitudes for the most part, and she had practiced catching buoyant drifts of degradable confetti rather than actual airplants, which were protected by law during the off-season.
He was used to late check-ins, and Savannah had learned to make allowances for tourists, especially in the off-season.
None of these kids are going to spend the off-season playing fantasy baseball in Florida with overweight businessmen, or signing expensive baseball cards at memorabilia shows, or touring the chicken circuit at two thousand bucks a night.
And suppose Greg is just hanging out in French Lick orwhatever hickville town he goes to in the off-season, fishing or something?
The short ferry journey, leaving the Audi on the jetty at Norddeich, in the company of a few late holiday-makers from Hamburg and the Ruhr crossing to Norderney for an off-season, cheap-rate ten days, had increased his sense of possible foolishness, of chasing after a whim and looking very, very dumb.
Upstairs, in the plant rooms on the roof, glazed in, where Wolfe kept his ten thousand orchids, I found him in the middle room turning some off-season Oncidiums that were about to bud, while Horstmann fussed around with a pot of charcoal and osmundine.
I might have to travel off-season and economy to get to Optheria but I'm certainly not going to waste the opportunities of trying everything new on the Athena.
If you wondered why no special courtesy classes for taxi drivers are held in the off-season, the answer is simple: There's no reason to impress the locals.