Definition of "off-duty" []

• Not engaged in or responsible for assigned work. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the periods when a person is not engaged in or responsible for assigned work. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The driver, also injured and hospitalized, was later identified as an off-duty police officer."
• "She’d done everything she could to help, and calling the off-duty nanny can’t be a mother’s best moment."
• "Those who live close enough to walk to synagogue do so, avoiding the lines of cars waiting to be directed by off-duty police officers into spots on the streets and in the jammed parking lot."