closed season

American

noun

a period, usually for a specific part of the year, during which angling or hunting for a given species is legally prohibited.

closed season on ducks.

Example Sentences

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"The boats are available until Easter basically, because it is our closed season, and hopefully by then something will have been sorted for them," said Ms Edwards.

From BBC

From 2020 to 2024, there were no prosecutions at courts for the offence "burning whins in closed season", but the setting of gorse fires more generally can be prosecuted as arson.

From BBC

Still another proposal calls for a closed season on conch.

From Seattle Times

Even the possibility of a closed season draws ire.

From Seattle Times

The dramatic abduction of Nat, which closed Season 1, harkens back to the spooky, fishhook-like symbols the teens found carved into random trees while they were stranded in the wilderness back in 1996.

From Los Angeles Times

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