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moonlighting

/ ˈmuːnˌlaɪtɪŋ /

noun

  1. working at a secondary job
  2. (in 19th-century Ireland) the carrying out of cattle-maiming, murders, etc, during the night in protest against the land-tenure system
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The theater manager called security, and three moonlighting off-duty police deputies arrived.

It was 1961, and Gregory was a 29-year-old post office worker moonlighting at a black club in Chicago called Roberts Show Bar.

When Joan Leonard puts the set on, Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd are yelling at each other on Moonlighting.

Hoping to send more money home, Reza began moonlighting for another company—an illegal but common practice.

No wonder the summit was eclipsed by the B-movie imbroglio over Secret Service agents moonlighting as sex tourists.

But did you ever hear of a youngster who'd sit behind the door and suck his thumbs while there was moonlighting in the air?

What call had he to go moonlighting or to bring himself into danger at all?

Another small moonlighting incident, now appearing for the first time on this or any other stage.

My journey to Galway was undertaken for the purpose of hanging four men who were condemned to death for moonlighting.

If the Limerick moonlighters must have been tried in Cork there would have been no moonlighting.

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