nine to five

nine to fiveadv

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  From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • Nine to five, what a way to make a living; barely getting by, it's all taking and no giving.
  • [D]uring his heyday, Bill Rodgers emphatically stated, “No runner working 9 to 5 can beat me”, attesting that training for elite distance competition had become a full-time job in itself.

nine to fivenoun

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  The period between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., corresponding to the office hours of a typical working day.

  • He done quit his nine to five, he drink full-time / And now he’s living in a bottle
  • We're lost in music / Feel so alive / I quit my nine-to-five / We're lost in music
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  The period between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., corresponding to the office hours of a typical working day.

  • Going back to the nine to five after the weekend can be depressing.
  • But going behind the scenes, you see what is absent from the social media highlights and edgy viral clips: life as an influencer is often banal and just as much of a trap as the standard nine-to-five.
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  The period between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., corresponding to the office hours of a typical working day.

  • Stock markets crash, businesses go bankrupt, and 9-to-5s can disappear from layoffs and downsizing.

nine to fiveadj

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  Beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m.

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  Beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m.

  • 1976 March, advertisement, Popular Mechanics, page 44, By day, he′s a 9-to-5 man. By night, an explorer in a field that really interests him!

nine to fiveverb

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  informalTo work a typical day job with office hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • What’s more, Friends offers someone for everyone: a tall, dorky, insecure guy (David Schwimmer); a ditzy, guitar-strumming blonde (Lisa Kudrow); a handsome, jean-clad palooka (Matt LeBlanc); a sarcastic, 9-to-5-ing funnyman ([Matthew] Perry); a dark-haired, blue-eyed Veronica (Courteney Cox); and a spoiled suburban princess just finding her legs ([Jennifer] Aniston).
  • Pete [Best] led a quiet but contented life subsequently as a civil servant and is heading for his golden wedding. He never abandoned music, however, and set up the Pete Best Band after 20 years nine-to-fiving for HM Government.