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.

   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.

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 (kháltúra)
• 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)
• Spanish: pluriempleo (es) m, trabajo en negro m
• Ukrainian: халту́ра (uk) f (xaltúra), підробі́ток (pidrobítok), шаба́шка (šabáška)