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off duty

off duty prepositional phrase: not engaged in an assigned task, duty, or occupation.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Not engaged in an assigned task, duty, or occupation.
    • The policeman was off duty but had his gun.
    • I won't be going off duty until about six.
    Antonyms:
    on duty

off duty meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

off duty in Tamil

அலுவல், வேலை ஓய்வு, அலுவல்முறை ஓய்வு

off duty in Malayalam

not working, at leisure, on holiday
ജോലിയിൽനിന്നും വിട്ടുനിൽക്കുന്ന, ജോലിസമയമല്ലാത്ത, ഒഴിവുള്ള സമയമായ, ഒഴിവുസമയമായ, പ്രവൃത്തിസമയമല്ലാത്ത, ഇടവേളയായ

Antonyms of off duty

Forms of off duty

alternative formoff-duty

Questions about off duty

What does off duty mean?
Off duty means not engaged in an assigned task, duty, or occupation.
What is off duty in Tamil?
Off duty in Tamil is அலுவல், வேலை ஓய்வு, அலுவல்முறை ஓய்வு. See Off duty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is off duty?
Off duty is a prepositional phrase.

Words near off duty in the dictionary

  1. off cutters
  2. off day
  3. off days
  4. off drive
  5. off drives
  6. off duty
  7. off guard
  8. off keel
  9. off kilter
  10. off label
  11. off licence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: off duty (page history and authors); off duty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); off duty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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