after-hours
adjective
af·ter-hours
ˌaf-tər-ˈau̇(-ə)rz 
: engaged in or operating after a legal or conventional closing time
after-hours drinking
an after-hours club
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise — The cloud services company missed Wall Street’s fourth-quarter revenue expectations, leading shares to drop about 8% in the after-hours session.
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
There are some people who make arbitrage trades in after-hours trading.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
Marcelo’s story keeps everything connected and the humanity in the forefront, but the overall effect is still akin to surfing channels late at night, slipping from one delirious after-hours offering to the next.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
Investors approved of the quarterly update and pushed shares of Gap up 4.4 percent to $24 in after-hours trading.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 20 Nov. 2025
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
There are some people who make arbitrage trades in after-hours trading.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
Marcelo’s story keeps everything connected and the humanity in the forefront, but the overall effect is still akin to surfing channels late at night, slipping from one delirious after-hours offering to the next.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
Investors approved of the quarterly update and pushed shares of Gap up 4.4 percent to $24 in after-hours trading.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 20 Nov. 2025
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“After-hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/after-hours. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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