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925

925 is the alternative form of nine to five.

Meaning of nine to five

Noun

nine to five (plural nine to fives)

  1. A typical day job that occupies these working hours; (also) the working day itself.
    • He done quit his nine to five, he drink full-time / And now he’s living in a bottle1974, Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, “The Bottle”, in Winter in America
  2. (often) The routine imposed by such a work schedule.
    • Going back to the nine to five after the weekend can be depressing.
  3. (broadly) A person who works such a day job.
    • Stock markets crash, businesses go bankrupt, and 9-to-5s can disappear from layoffs and downsizing.2009, Scott Brown, Treat Your Poker Like a Business, page 101
    Synonyms:
    nine-to-fiver

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Questions about 925

What is 925 the alternative form of?
925 is the alternative form of nine to five.

Words near 925 in the dictionary

  1. 911
  2. 911ed
  3. 911ing
  4. 911s
  5. 91st
  6. 925
  7. 92nd
  8. 93
  9. 93rd
  10. 94th
  11. 95th

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 925 (page history and authors); nine to five (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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