night job

English

Etymology

From night +‎ job.

Noun

night job (plural night jobs)

1. A side job worked at night.

   Antonym: day job

   Hypernym: side job

   I'm no expert on this stuff. This is just my night job. The day shift people can give you more advice on which model to buy and how to use it.

2. A job (project or task) that will or must be done at night.

   To avoid disrupting rush hour traffic, the highway department declared that the bridge maintenance would be a night job.

   He got out of road work and into home remodel contracting because they kept putting him on all the night jobs.

Related terms

• be on nights
• nightly
• night owl
• night shift