DAY OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does day off mean? 

• DAY OFF (noun)
  The noun DAY OFF has 1 sense:

1. a day when you are not required to work

  Familiarity information: DAY OFF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAY OFF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A day when you are not required to work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

Thursday is his day off

Hypernyms ("day off" is a kind of...):

time off (a time period when you are not required to work)

 Context examples 

She kept a calendar of the holidays in this way, and every morning checked a day off in exactly the same manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Beg off social obligations, and take some sweet time for yourself over the weekend of March 7-8, and if you can, take one extra day off, Monday, March 9.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Thus the holidays lagged away, until the morning came when Miss Murdstone said: “Here's the last day off!” and gave me the closing cup of tea of the vacation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Then here's one day off.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand. This was his day off and with laudable initiative he had hurried out "to see."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)