Wiktionary
alt. Not engaged in an assigned task, duty or occupation prep.phr. Not engaged in an assigned task, duty or occupation
WordNet
adj. not performing or scheduled for duties; "He's off every Tuesday"; "he was off duty when it happened"; "an off-duty policeman" [syn: off(p), off duty(p), off-duty(a)]
Usage examples of "off duty".
Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors.
Once it was apparent they were off duty and were not going to be replaced, I went home.
The darksome whippoorwill went off duty and the chickadees came to tentative life, still hesitant, as if afraid to greet the day on their own.
He had been stirred to the core by that first wonderful sight of the great and glorious life of manhood opening before him, but he had yet many a sport to enjoy, many a game to play, many a boisterous romp to riot in the dormitory, many an expedition to make to copse and spinney and river on days when he was off duty, and when permission had been granted.
There was discipline in the forces of Estcarp but off duty there was no caste and the men about that board were avid for news.
Morse-who has only ever admitted that his Christian name begins with an E-is also a vulnerable man beneath the surface, a fact which has much to do with a tortured romance that occurred during his college days, and he now prefers, when off duty, to lose himself in the music of Wagner, good books, crossword puzzles or pints of real ale.