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nine-to-fiver

nine-to-fiver noun: someone who works a nine-to-five job.

Noun

nine-to-fiver (plural nine-to-fivers)

  1. Someone who works a nine-to-five job.
    • The men and women who walk here are an unassuming lot, less the cell-phoned swells of the new Bryant Park than nine-to-fivers needing a smoke.1998 August 7, Thomas Mallon, “My Manhattan: Once-Famous Faces Watch Over a Park”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27...
    • And the welders and the drivers
      And the old nine to fivers
      And the regular Joe's of the world2011, Toby Keith, Clancy's Tavern

Forms of nine-to-fiver

pluralnine-to-fivers

Origin of nine-to-fiver

From nine-to-five + -er.

Questions about nine-to-fiver

What does nine-to-fiver mean?
Nine-to-fiver means someone who works a nine-to-five job.
What part of speech is nine-to-fiver?
Nine-to-fiver is a noun.
What is the plural of nine-to-fiver?
The plural of nine-to-fiver is nine-to-fivers.

Words near nine-to-fiver in the dictionary

  1. nine-thousandth
  2. nine-timer
  3. nine-timers
  4. nine-to-five
  5. nine-to-fived
  6. nine-to-fiver
  7. nine-to-fivers
  8. nine-to-fives
  9. nine-to-fiving
  10. Ninebanks
  11. ninebark

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