moonlightnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈmuːn.laɪt/us/ˈmuːn.laɪt/B2 the pale light of the moon:
The young lovers sat in the moonlight.
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Light
- beam
- candlelight
- daylight
- firelight
- fluorescent
- glossy
- incandescent
- incident ray
- lamplight
- light
- luminescent
- luminous
- opalescent
- phosphorescent
- photo
- shiny
- starlight
- sun
- sunlight
- sunshine
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Idiom(s)
do a moonlight flit
moonlightverb [ I ]
uk/ˈmuːn.laɪt/us/ˈmuːn.laɪt/moonlightedto work at an extra job, especially without telling your main employer:
A qualified teacher, he moonlighted as a cabbie in the evenings to pay the rent.
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Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- hold down a job idiom
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- labour
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
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moonlighting
noun [ U ] uk/ˈmuːn.laɪ.tɪŋ/us/ˈmuːn.laɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
You'll lose your job if the boss finds out you've been moonlighting.