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shoulder season

shoulder season noun: the time between high and low season in a travel market, or, if the market is divided into four segments, the time just below high season.

Noun

shoulder season (plural shoulder seasons)

  1. The time between high and low season in a travel market, or, if the market is divided into four segments, the time just below high season.
    • When planning future trips, he echoed Ms. Vargas in recommending that people consider traveling during the “shoulder season,” which his tour company now defines as April and October — no longer May and September.2022 August 4, Paige McClanahan, “Stockholm Instead of Rome? October Instead of July? How Heat Waves Are Changing Tourism in Europe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of shoulder season

pluralshoulder seasons

Questions about shoulder season

What does shoulder season mean?
Shoulder season means the time between high and low season in a travel market, or, if the market is divided into four segments, the time just below high season.
What part of speech is shoulder season?
Shoulder season is a noun.
What is the plural of shoulder season?
The plural of shoulder season is shoulder seasons.

Words near shoulder season in the dictionary

  1. shoulder pads
  2. shoulder piece
  3. shoulder pieces
  4. shoulder pole
  5. shoulder poles
  6. shoulder season
  7. shoulder seasons
  8. shoulder strap
  9. shoulder straps
  10. shoulder surf
  11. shoulder surfer

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