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Definition of "after-hours" []

  • Occurring after closing time: after-hours socializing. (adjective)
  • Open after a legal or established closing time: an after-hours club. (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.

Use "after-hours" in a sentence
  • "Late-day trades are also made on the Instinet and the Chicago Stock Exchange, for example, so all transactions after the 4 p.m. listings for New York Stock Exchange composite trading are referred to as after-hours trading."
  • "Will you often or always be referred to an after-hours nursing call center?"
  • "Then later to visit his hangout, an after-hours bar called the No Name in a strip mall in University Heights where one of his buddies worked and where he sometimes tended bar."
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