Usually means: Standard full-time work hours.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word nine to five:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. nine to five: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nine-to-five: Merriam-Webster
  3. nine-to-five: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nine-to-five, nine-to-five, nine to five: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nine to five: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nine-to-five, nine to five: Wiktionary
  7. nine-to-five: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nine-to-five: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. nine-to-five, nine to five: Dictionary.com
  10. Nine to Five (film), Nine to five: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. nine-to-five: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nine-to-Five, nine to five: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nine to five)

▸ adverb:  From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
▸ noun:  A typical working day.

Similar:
nine while five, 24/5, twenty-four hours a day, twenty-four seven, noonly, quarter-hourly, nine times out of ten, o'clockish, o'clock, semi-daily, more...

Opposite:
flexible schedule, shift work, irregular hours

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Similar:
nine while five, 24/5, twenty-four hours a day, twenty-four seven, noonly, quarter-hourly, nine times out of ten, o'clockish, o'clock, semi-daily, more...

Opposite:
flexible schedule, shift work, irregular hours



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