off duty

See also: offduty and off-duty

English

Alternative forms

• off-duty

Prepositional phrase

off duty

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.

   • 1944, Philip MacDonald, Action in Arabia, spoken by Matthew Reed (Robert Armstrong):

     Officially I think you're crazy. Unofficially I'm off duty.

Antonyms

• on duty