Examples of work off in a Sentence
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The owner of the farm – identified as Grace Tung – shortchanged workers who received the regular rate of pay for all hours worked, including hours over 40 in a workweek, and who were also not paid for work off the clock, the federal agency said.
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Jason Green, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
On top of the excessive hours, employees sometimes had to work off the clock too.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 May 2024
On Friday, May 3, just before 11:30 p.m., a uniformed officer working off duty at a hospital in Independence, Missouri, responded to the ICU unit in reference to an assault.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 7 May 2024
Get out and about, do something physical to work off energy and surround yourself with people who enrich your life instead of tearing it apart.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
To say the parties are working off different playbooks is an understatement.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 May 2024
Prosecutors will work off the same indictment, albeit excluding the charges he was acquitted of four years ago.
—CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
If your cleaning routine involves a lot of manual scrubbing, an electric scrubber will take a lot of work off your hands.
—Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
By taking such busy work off their plates, AI enables healthcare professionals to spend more time actually interacting with patients.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
Jason Green, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
On top of the excessive hours, employees sometimes had to work off the clock too.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 May 2024
On Friday, May 3, just before 11:30 p.m., a uniformed officer working off duty at a hospital in Independence, Missouri, responded to the ICU unit in reference to an assault.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 7 May 2024
Get out and about, do something physical to work off energy and surround yourself with people who enrich your life instead of tearing it apart.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
To say the parties are working off different playbooks is an understatement.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 May 2024
Prosecutors will work off the same indictment, albeit excluding the charges he was acquitted of four years ago.
—CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
If your cleaning routine involves a lot of manual scrubbing, an electric scrubber will take a lot of work off your hands.
—Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
By taking such busy work off their plates, AI enables healthcare professionals to spend more time actually interacting with patients.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
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“Work off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20off. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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