Definition of "time off" []

• A period of time where one is not required to work. (noun)

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• "One RAT gunner looks out to see a half a dozen seven-year-old boys, a cluster of TPs he was about to open fire on—he had been delighted that he had so many insurgents in one cluster, it would be an easy kill and his computer would rack up the credits, earning him and his driver a reward, compensatory time off or another insignia."
• "Walt DeHaven, Raetta Holdman, Kristine Strain, and Tim Wieland were among those who never complained when I needed time off to be an army guy, or needed to juggle jobs with writing a book."
• "I traveled to New Haven on a Trailways bus because the ever-benevolent Baltimore government would not let my father have the time off to drive me there himself."