closed season

American  

noun

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

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

That element feels more like a forgotten loose end than its own cliffhanger, and Gi-hun being reminded that the elite class will try to crush the proletariat until their dying breaths is far too thematically similar to the plot points that closed Season 1’s finale.

From Salon

The full list of offences the man has been arrested for are: criminal damage, night poaching, an offence under the Public Order Act, killing of a schedule 1 bird, an offence under the Animal Welfare Act, killing of brown hare in the closed season and an offence under the Firearms Act.

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