after-hours

adjective

af·​ter-hours ˌaf-tər-ˈau̇(-ə)rz How to pronounce after-hours (audio)
: engaged in or operating after a legal or conventional closing time
after-hours drinking
an after-hours club

Examples of after-hours in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Cicero’s daughter, Julia (Game of Thrones/Fast & Furious franchise stalwart Nathalie Emmanuel), is a fixture in the nightclub scene and a card-carrying member of the party-girl contingent; her after-hours activities find their way into New Rome’s gossip rags with stunning regularity. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024 This underscores the importance of not enticing U.S. individual investors into a fragmented and opaque after-hours market. Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 14 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for after-hours 

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Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of after-hours was in 1902

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“After-hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/after-hours. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

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