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Definition of nine-to-five in English: nine-to-fiveadjective Used in reference to typical office hours, often to express an idea of predictable routine. (用以指从早上九点到下午五点的典型办公时间)朝九晚五的 一份朝九晚五的工作。 Example sentencesExamples - Phil's workplace is enough to make any wage-slave stuck in a nine-to-five office job green with envy.
- They were stuck in their boring nine-to-five day jobs, but he'd achieve more than that.
- Sault Sainte Marie, a northern-tier border town surrounded by water, unproductive farmland, and national forests, is not on a typical nine-to-five office schedule.
- He views his training as a fulltime job, and I respect that nine-to-five mentality.
- The world of music could have been denied the voice of Clare Teal and she could have settled into the mundane life of the nine-to-five office world, but once again luck was on her side.
- But, unlike his siblings, he didn't have any office to report to, no nine-to-five hours to keep, no boss to answer.
- Social workers reacted angrily to the idea that there was any kind of nine-to-five culture among staff.
- If I worked on it non-stop, like a nine-to-five job, one page start to finish would take me about a week.
- If your favourite part of the nine-to-five routine is lunchtime, maybe it's time to give your tired, typing hands something tasty to cook up.
- As an example, a golfer who wins a tournament in the United States can earn more in four days than the average Australian takes home from more than 20 years of nine-to-five toil.
- Now 24, he hasn't known a single period of unemployment since, which, for an actor, is as close as you get to a nine-to-five bank manager's job.
- They seek a half-hearted return to the post-war ‘New Deal,’ naively hoping decent paying nine-to-five factory jobs can thrive again in the era of neo-liberalism.
- There are five main alternatives to the standard five-day, nine-to-five week: job sharing, telecommuting, compressed time, flextime and part-time work.
- Either job would offer contact with people and a working day less mundane than a nine-to-five office job.
- In quieter corners, those who rush through their nine-to-five routines discover a moment of connection.
- It hasn't been this way for long - less than a year ago the very idea of starting a non-freelance nine-to-five kind of job filled me with horror.
- We arrived home 2 ½ hours later than the average nine-to-five office worker.
- You might have daydreamed for years about being your own boss, running your own business, having visions of chucking in the nine-to-five routine and doing your own thing.
- It should allow them to become accustomed to the nine-to-five routine of their future adopted parents.
- As a five-year-old dreads a visit to the dentist or as a student fears the day when the reality of nine-to-five employment will finally beckon, footballers enter their pre - season training phase with a high level of trepidation.
noun A nine-to-five job. Example sentencesExamples - Well, when I'm not singing-'cause now I don't work a nine-to-five anymore, I'm singing for a living and have been for four or five years-I'll go twice a week if I can swing it.
- ‘I went from school to university to being in a group, and sometimes I wonder if I've missed out on stuff you get with the nine-to-five,’ says Love.
- ‘I've done nine-to-fives and there's nothing wrong with them ’, Gervais says, ‘but you don't live to work: you live for the evenings and weekends, and have other ambitions’.
- And for the past few weeks Mendez has been running a creative Christmas craft workshop from the boardroom of Cannings Credit Union, where this artsy lady holds down a regular nine-to-five.
- Now, almost ten years later, I've got a nine-to-five (in the action sports industry) so when I squeeze 25 days out of the season I'm stoked.
- ‘We would meet at six o'clock after our nine-to-fives and say: ‘How was your day, honey?’
- It's a corner in the kitchen or bedroom where we've managed to shoehorn household bills, paperwork brought home from the nine-to-five and often a computer.
- I've never thought of doing a normal job - I could never do a nine-to-five.
- I know I'm going to have to devote a lot of my free time to looking for a job, but there's a big gap in my mindscape where the nine-to-five used to be, and that feels extraordinarily liberating.
- She meets a York woman who has swapped the nine-to-five to make Christmas cakes and puddings full-time from home.
- Like most of his fellow adventurers, he is fleeing not just the confines of class and England but those of home and hearth - the wife and kids, the nine-to-five - as well.
- I'm planning at the moment to leave the nine-to-five in the City.
- OK, so you want to leave nine-to-five behind and launch a whole new gig as an outfitter or a yoga instructor or, well, you're really not sure.
Definition of nine-to-five in US English: nine-to-fiveadjectiveˌnaɪntəˈfaɪvˌnīntəˈfīv Used in reference to typical hours of work in an office, often to express an idea of routine or predictability. (用以指从早上九点到下午五点的典型办公时间)朝九晚五的 一份朝九晚五的工作。 Example sentencesExamples - If your favourite part of the nine-to-five routine is lunchtime, maybe it's time to give your tired, typing hands something tasty to cook up.
- If I worked on it non-stop, like a nine-to-five job, one page start to finish would take me about a week.
- As a five-year-old dreads a visit to the dentist or as a student fears the day when the reality of nine-to-five employment will finally beckon, footballers enter their pre - season training phase with a high level of trepidation.
- He views his training as a fulltime job, and I respect that nine-to-five mentality.
- They were stuck in their boring nine-to-five day jobs, but he'd achieve more than that.
- It should allow them to become accustomed to the nine-to-five routine of their future adopted parents.
- It hasn't been this way for long - less than a year ago the very idea of starting a non-freelance nine-to-five kind of job filled me with horror.
- Either job would offer contact with people and a working day less mundane than a nine-to-five office job.
- Sault Sainte Marie, a northern-tier border town surrounded by water, unproductive farmland, and national forests, is not on a typical nine-to-five office schedule.
- They seek a half-hearted return to the post-war ‘New Deal,’ naively hoping decent paying nine-to-five factory jobs can thrive again in the era of neo-liberalism.
- The world of music could have been denied the voice of Clare Teal and she could have settled into the mundane life of the nine-to-five office world, but once again luck was on her side.
- There are five main alternatives to the standard five-day, nine-to-five week: job sharing, telecommuting, compressed time, flextime and part-time work.
- But, unlike his siblings, he didn't have any office to report to, no nine-to-five hours to keep, no boss to answer.
- Social workers reacted angrily to the idea that there was any kind of nine-to-five culture among staff.
- You might have daydreamed for years about being your own boss, running your own business, having visions of chucking in the nine-to-five routine and doing your own thing.
- We arrived home 2 ½ hours later than the average nine-to-five office worker.
- Phil's workplace is enough to make any wage-slave stuck in a nine-to-five office job green with envy.
- Now 24, he hasn't known a single period of unemployment since, which, for an actor, is as close as you get to a nine-to-five bank manager's job.
- In quieter corners, those who rush through their nine-to-five routines discover a moment of connection.
- As an example, a golfer who wins a tournament in the United States can earn more in four days than the average Australian takes home from more than 20 years of nine-to-five toil.
nounˌnaɪntəˈfaɪvˌnīntəˈfīv A nine-to-five job. Example sentencesExamples - And for the past few weeks Mendez has been running a creative Christmas craft workshop from the boardroom of Cannings Credit Union, where this artsy lady holds down a regular nine-to-five.
- OK, so you want to leave nine-to-five behind and launch a whole new gig as an outfitter or a yoga instructor or, well, you're really not sure.
- Well, when I'm not singing-'cause now I don't work a nine-to-five anymore, I'm singing for a living and have been for four or five years-I'll go twice a week if I can swing it.
- ‘I've done nine-to-fives and there's nothing wrong with them ’, Gervais says, ‘but you don't live to work: you live for the evenings and weekends, and have other ambitions’.
- ‘I went from school to university to being in a group, and sometimes I wonder if I've missed out on stuff you get with the nine-to-five,’ says Love.
- I know I'm going to have to devote a lot of my free time to looking for a job, but there's a big gap in my mindscape where the nine-to-five used to be, and that feels extraordinarily liberating.
- It's a corner in the kitchen or bedroom where we've managed to shoehorn household bills, paperwork brought home from the nine-to-five and often a computer.
- Like most of his fellow adventurers, he is fleeing not just the confines of class and England but those of home and hearth - the wife and kids, the nine-to-five - as well.
- She meets a York woman who has swapped the nine-to-five to make Christmas cakes and puddings full-time from home.
- Now, almost ten years later, I've got a nine-to-five (in the action sports industry) so when I squeeze 25 days out of the season I'm stoked.
- ‘We would meet at six o'clock after our nine-to-fives and say: ‘How was your day, honey?’
- I'm planning at the moment to leave the nine-to-five in the City.
- I've never thought of doing a normal job - I could never do a nine-to-five.
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