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词汇 unsocial
释义 unsocial
adjective
UKuk /ʌnˈsəʊ.ʃəl/ us /ʌnˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
happening during the days of the week or hours of the day when most people do not have to work: 非正常工作时间的;正常工作时间以外的
I don't want to work unsocial hours.我不想在正常工作时间以外工作。
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Working hours
after hoursidiom
clock in
clock out
close of business
close of play
full time
hour
in-service
man-hour
night shift
overtime
punch
punch out
punch the clockidiom
reduced time
rush hour
shiftwork
time clock
workweek
zero-hours contract

unsocial | Business English


unsocial
adjective
 WORKPLACE, HRuk /ˌʌnˈsəʊʃəl/us(alsounsociable)
used to describe the hours during which most people are not working:
Overtime payments help to compensate for low basic pay and unsocial hours.

Examples of unsocial


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Sixty-five per cent of centres have initiated some form of payment for working "unsocial" hours.
The other 35% of centres have either resisted "unsocial" hours working, depended on the goodwill of staff, or awarded their employees time-off in lieu.
But many men appreciate the extra income from working unsocial hours.
Some services (such as the police) depend absolutely on shiftwork and unsocial hours.
Unsocial work hours similarly increased the risk among men.
To the contrary, the sentiment of justice is understood in terms of the propriety of resentment, and resentment is classified among the "unsocial passions" (pp. 34-8, 78-82).
They are inevitably cheerful, helpful people, who work very unsocial hours, and they are often very kind to the elderly.
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There is provision for extra payment to be made to people like postmen who work what are called unsocial hours.
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Until litter louts can be persuaded to give up their dirty, inconsiderate and unsocial behaviour, the problem will remain.
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They work unsocial hours and there is little compensation for that.
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There are men who say that a person, by taking a profit, is unsocial and wrong.
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Of course, it will be said that the machine would involve working unsocial hours.
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Even if it were, is it desirable to employ vast numbers of extra staff at these unsocial hours?
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Failure to do so is a thoroughly unsocial and dangerous policy.
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It seems to me that that should apply as much to people who work late and unsocial hours as to the rest of us.
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