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Definition of sleep-in in English: sleep-inadjective attributive (of a domestic employee) resident in an employer's house. （家庭雇工）住在雇主家的 住在主人家的保姆。 Example sentencesExamples - The former included a second carer for 6 hours a day in addition to 24-hour care by one carer, with sleep-in care for 10 hours.
- We are looking for a full time sleep-in domestic worker.
- A night awake carer would be paid for the full 10 hours overnight care whereas a sleep-in carer would be paid for 6 of those hours.
- A recent ruling by the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the claim of a sleep-in worker for such sleep-in time to be considered working time.
noun 1An instance of remaining asleep or in bed longer than usual in the morning. 晚起，赖床 理所当然的晚起。 Example sentencesExamples - I look at my clock and see that everyone had let me sleep in.
- Sleeping in is what I look forward to on the weekends.
- Are you ready to give up sleeping in on weekend mornings?
- For some reason, she was sleeping in.
- That night, for the first time in months, I was able to sleep in.
- Saturday morning, Jay and I like to sleep in a bit.
- Today I finally slept in.
- What could possibly be the most important day of my life, and I sleep in.
- Tomorrow we are sleeping in and then packing up, doing last minute shopping, and then having our last meal with the Slovaks.
- I bet local residents thought they were going to get to sleep in this morning!
- My bedroom is too hot to be able to sleep in!
- I ended up eating a breakfast of Frosted Flakes cereal and bananas and sleeping in.
- There were days, late in my last training cycle, when I simply needed to sleep in.
- I slept in yesterday morning which is extremely odd for me.
- After the party, they are all sleeping in today.
- We don't work today, so let's sleep in.
- We all slept in this morning and ate a leisurely breakfast.
- You're silent, you never talk, and you sleep in at times.
- We were so exhausted after the hike that we slept in the next morning.
- Normally, she'd spend her Saturdays sleeping in.
2A form of protest in which the participants sleep overnight in premises which they have occupied. 静卧示威 a student sleep-in began last night 学生静卧示威昨晚开始。 Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, a New Yorker, after seeing the sleep-in on the national news, ordered the students two pepperoni pizzas and a cheese pizza from the pizza joint across the street.
- They were joined by students, who organized a sit-in and a sleep-in at the senate chambers in 2001.
- I'm glad to have seen some more of the sleep-in footage, though. It was an event that I believe was incredibly successful.
- The group of friendly housing activists isn't exactly holding a sleep-in on the mayor's couch - but his staff is obviously uncomfortable.
- An assessment was made of the sleep-in by some 60 students at the college the previous Thursday.
Synonyms demonstration, march, protest march, peace camp, rally, sit-in, human chain, occupation, dirty protest, write-in, non-cooperation
Definition of sleep-in in US English: sleep-inadjectiveˈslipˌɪnˈslēpˌin attributive (of a domestic employee) resident in an employer's house. （家庭雇工）住在雇主家的 住在主人家的保姆。 Example sentencesExamples - A recent ruling by the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the claim of a sleep-in worker for such sleep-in time to be considered working time.
- The former included a second carer for 6 hours a day in addition to 24-hour care by one carer, with sleep-in care for 10 hours.
- A night awake carer would be paid for the full 10 hours overnight care whereas a sleep-in carer would be paid for 6 of those hours.
- We are looking for a full time sleep-in domestic worker.
nounˈslipˌɪnˈslēpˌin A form of protest in which the participants sleep overnight in premises that they have occupied. 静卧示威 a student sleep-in began last night 学生静卧示威昨晚开始。 Example sentencesExamples - An assessment was made of the sleep-in by some 60 students at the college the previous Thursday.
- I'm glad to have seen some more of the sleep-in footage, though. It was an event that I believe was incredibly successful.
- The group of friendly housing activists isn't exactly holding a sleep-in on the mayor's couch - but his staff is obviously uncomfortable.
- Meanwhile, a New Yorker, after seeing the sleep-in on the national news, ordered the students two pepperoni pizzas and a cheese pizza from the pizza joint across the street.
- They were joined by students, who organized a sit-in and a sleep-in at the senate chambers in 2001.
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