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off-peak

/awf-peek, of-/US // ˈɔfˈpik, ˈɒf- //

非高峰期,非高峰,非高峰时段,非峰值

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or during a period of less than maximum frequency, demand, intensity, or use: the off-peak travel season; off-peak train fares.
    • : lower than the maximum: off-peak production.

Examples

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.

  • Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • Three days later he was in Switzerland, and a few days later again he was on the summit of a minor but still difficult peak.

  • The Hope lay safely moored, with her ensign at the peak, and flying the distinguished flag of the firm.

  • Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.

  • In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.