moonlighting

English

Verb

moonlighting

1. present participle and gerund of moonlight

Noun

moonlighting (countable and uncountable, plural moonlightings)

2. The act of, or a period of, working on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night, either openly or secretly.

   Aiming for sky-high productivity, the company discourages the distractions and fatigue of moonlighting by paying people enough that most choose not to bother with a second job.

4. (rare, dated) Moonshining.

Related terms

• moonlighter

Translations

period of working on the side

Armenian: խալտուրա (hy) (xaltura) Belarusian: халту́ра f (xaltúra) Chinese: Mandarin: 兼任 (zh) (jiānrèn), 兼職 / 兼职 (zh) (jiānzhí) Czech: melouch (cs) m Finnish: sivutyö French: travail au noir (fr) m, travail dissimulé (fr) m Georgian: ხალტურა (ka) (xalṭura) German: Mehrfachbeschäftigung f, Schwarzarbeit (de) f Hebrew: חַלְטוּרָה (he) f (khaltúra) Hungarian: másodállás (hu), álláshalmozás (hu), mellékfoglalkozás (hu), maszekolás, fusi, fusimunka Irish: obair faoi choim f Italian: lavoro nero m Lithuanian: nelegalus darbas Polish: chałtura (pl) f Russian: халту́ра (ru) f (xaltúra), рабо́та по-чёрному f (rabóta po-čórnomu), шаба́шка (ru) f (šabáška), подработка (ru) f (podrabotka) Spanish: pluriempleo (es) m, trabajo en negro m Ukrainian: халту́ра (uk) f (xaltúra), підробі́ток (pidrobítok), шаба́шка (šabáška)

See also

• at night
• be on nights
• night job
• nightly
• night owl
• night shift
• nightwork, night work
• on the side
• shiftwork
• side gig
• side hustle