Definitions

after hours

[af-ter-ouuhrz, -ou-erz, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˈaʊərz, -ˈaʊ ərz, ˈɑf- /

NOUN

night

Synonyms

STRONGEST

midnight

STRONG

bedtime blackness dark darkness duskiness evening eventide gloom nightfall nighttime obscurity twilight

WEAK

after dark before dawn dark hours dead of night dusk to dawn nighttide pitch dark pitch-darkness witching hour

Antonyms

STRONG

day daybreak daylight daytime light morning

WEAK

brightness illumination lightness

Example Sentences

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Strategy’s stock was up about 5% in after-hours trading on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch

Shares of the AI chip designer rose slightly in after-hours trading following Huang's presentation.

From BBC

He probably feels more awful about his after-hours pilfering than you do.

From MarketWatch

Oracle’s stock turned higher in after-hours trading on Thursday, after Bloomberg reported that TikTok had signed on as a customer for Oracle’s cloud services.

From MarketWatch

FedEx late Thursday touted “outstanding” quarterly earnings and tweaked its outlook for the year, sending the stock higher in the after-hours session.

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after hours

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