office hours


plural noun
  1. the hours during which a professional person or an office conducts regular business.

  2. the hours a person spends working in an office.

Origin of office hours

1
First recorded in 1795–1805

Words Nearby office hours

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How to use office hours in a sentence

  • I have a dressmaker, unique thing— Oh, don't stare at the clothes I have on; I have to dress this way during office-hours.

    Find the Woman | Arthur Somers Roche
  • It was past office-hours, and Jenifer having been told that Peter would dine up-town, had departed on his own leave of absence.

  • He devoted all his spare time and some of his office-hours to thinking out schemes for saving and retrenchment.

    Tales of Two Countries | Alexander Kielland
  • Returning by the same way, we got back to Mandalay by office-hours on Monday.

    A Civil Servant in Burma | Herbert Thirkel White
  • But when he had seen Stella's face he had forgotten office-hours.

    The Second Fiddle | Phyllis Bottome

British Dictionary definitions for office hours

office hours

pl n
  1. the hours during which an office is open for business

  2. the number of hours worked in an office

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