moonlighting

/ (ˈmuːnˌlaɪtɪŋ) /

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noun

working at a secondary job

(in 19th-century Ireland) the carrying out of cattle-maiming, murders, etc, during the night in protest against the land-tenure system

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Words nearby moonlighting

moon knife, moonlet, moon letter, moonlight, moonlight flit, moonlighting, Moonlight Sonata, moonlit, moon pillar, moon pool, moonprobe

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How to use moonlighting in a sentence

The theater manager called security, and three moonlighting off-duty police deputies arrived.
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It was 1961, and Gregory was a 29-year-old post office worker moonlighting at a black club in Chicago called Roberts Show Bar.
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When Joan Leonard puts the set on, Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd are yelling at each other on Moonlighting.
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Hoping to send more money home, Reza began moonlighting for another company—an illegal but common practice.
Singapore’s Exploited Immigrant Workers|Kirsten Han|November 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST

No wonder the summit was eclipsed by the B-movie imbroglio over Secret Service agents moonlighting as sex tourists.
Cartagena Summit’s Other Outrage: Obama’s Indifference to Latin Issues|Mac Margolis|April 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But did you ever hear of a youngster who'd sit behind the door and suck his thumbs while there was moonlighting in the air?
The Pioneers|Katharine Susannah Prichard
What call had he to go moonlighting or to bring himself into danger at all?
Seven Short Plays|Lady Gregory
Another small moonlighting incident, now appearing for the first time on this or any other stage.
Ireland as It Is|Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
My journey to Galway was undertaken for the purpose of hanging four men who were condemned to death for moonlighting.
My Experiences as an Executioner|James Berry
If the Limerick moonlighters must have been tried in Cork there would have been no moonlighting.
Ireland as It Is|Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

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