after hours

[af-ter-ouuhrz, -ou-erz, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˈaʊərz, -ˈaʊ ərz, ˈɑf- /

NOUN

night

Synonyms

STRONGEST

midnight

STRONG

bedtime blackness dark darkness duskiness evening eventide gloom nightfall nighttime obscurity twilight

WEAK

after dark before dawn dark hours dead of night dusk to dawn nighttide pitch dark pitch-darkness witching hour

Antonyms

STRONG

day daybreak daylight daytime light morning

WEAK

brightness illumination lightness

Example Sentences

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Oracle’s stock turned higher in after-hours trading on Thursday, after Bloomberg reported that TikTok had signed on as a customer for Oracle’s cloud services.

From MarketWatch

FedEx late Thursday touted “outstanding” quarterly earnings and tweaked its outlook for the year, sending the stock higher in the after-hours session.

From MarketWatch

Although the company topped earnings and revenue expectations, the stock ticked lower in after-hours trading Thursday, reflecting investors’ disappointment over declining profits and lackluster sales in China.

From Barron's

A bright spot was memory-chip maker Micron Technology, whose shares gained in after-hours trading after it hiked its growth forecasts.

From The Wall Street Journal

That explains why a stock that has already more than doubled in the past year rose another 8% in after-hours trading Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal

after hours

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