off duty

phrase

: free from assignment or responsibility

a police officer who was off duty at the time

Examples of off duty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Requiring a flight attendant to be completely off duty during a break could create a safety risk. — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2026

In the days after the robbery, Triunfel looked up the police report on the case multiple times while off duty without authorization — and on Monday searched the NYPD database for his own name, according to the complaint. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026

And in North Carolina, a police officer was charged with unlawfully accessing computers after allegedly using her department’s license plate reader system to look up the vehicle of her boyfriend’s ex-wife 31 times, including twice while off duty. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026

Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz took two very different trending shoes off duty in New York on Wednesday. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for off duty

• agouti
• beauty
• booty
• cutie
• fruity
• putti
• snooty
• sooty
• sruti
• tutti