"moonlighting" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: moonlightings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} moonlighting (countable and uncountable, plural moonlightings)
  1. The act of, or a period of, working on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: moonlighter Translations (period of working on the side): խալտուրա (xaltura) (Armenian), халту́ра (xaltúra) [feminine] (Belarusian), 兼任 (jiānrèn) (Chinese Mandarin), 兼職 (Chinese Mandarin), 兼职 (jiānzhí) (Chinese Mandarin), melouch [masculine] (Czech), sivutyö (Finnish), travail au noir [masculine] (French), travail dissimulé [masculine] (French), ხალტურა (xalṭura) (Georgian), Mehrfachbeschäftigung [feminine] (German), Schwarzarbeit [feminine] (German), חַלְטוּרָה (kháltúra) [feminine] (Hebrew), obair faoi choim [feminine] (Irish), lavoro nero [masculine] (Italian), nelegalus darbas (Lithuanian), chałtura [feminine] (Polish), халту́ра (xaltúra) [feminine] (Russian), рабо́та по-чёрному (rabóta po-čórnomu) [feminine] (Russian), pluriempleo [masculine] (Spanish), trabajo en negro [masculine] (Spanish), халту́ра (xaltúra) [feminine] (Ukrainian), підробі́ток (pidrobítok) (Ukrainian), шаба́шка (šabáška) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-moonlighting-en-noun-en:working_a_second_job

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} moonlighting
  1. present participle and gerund of moonlight Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: moonlight
    Sense id: en-moonlighting-en-verb-45Ca3YvM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "word": "חַלְטוּרָה"
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      "sense": "period of working on the side",
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      "sense": "period of working on the side",
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