Similar words: mother-of-pearl, peak, peaky, apeak, speak, peaked, speak out, speak up. Meaning: adj. of a period of less than maximal use or demand or activity.
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(1) We run the washing machine at night because off-peak electricity is much cheaper.
(2) Few customers take full advantage of off-peak fares.
(3) Telephone charges are lower during off-peak periods .
(4) Phone calls cost 20p per unit off-peak.
(5) Take advantage of off-peak reductions for package holidays.
(6) Check whether an off-peak electric storage heater or a gas fire might be better choice.
(7) Peak-hour trams will run every six minutes, with off-peak services every 12 minutes.
(8) During the summer off-peak months a proportion of gas is fed into storage units above and below ground.
(9) Public opinion sometimes erroneously accuses the partly empty, off-peak buses of being run inefficiently.
(10) At off-peak times senior citizens can use the sports centre at reduced rates.
(11) Collect this periodically during peak and off-peak hours.
(12) Off-peak, it's easier to get a seat, and during my 14 hours on the trains[sentencedict.com], I managed to get a seat about two-thirds of the time.
(13) "Rate design to encourage off-peak charging, coupled with time-of-use rates, and smart grid/advanced metering initiatives, would facilitate favorable charging behavior," it said.
(14) The price for indoor courts is ￡10 per hour at peak times and ￡7 per hour at off-peak times.
(15) Each tape lasts three minutes and costs 36p per minute off-peak and 48p at all other times.
(16) Youngsters and the unemployed will be given 250 hours of free community use at off-peak times.
(17) Consumers can benefit because the heaters then use more of the cheaper off-peak electricity, and less of the expensive kind.
(18) Work on the highway will be done only during off-peak hours.
(19) In particular, fare increases appear to lead to high losses of passengers, particularly at off-peak periods.
(20) Many do not take full advantage of the various daytime, night and off-peak tariffs on offer from their electricity company.
(21) It is debatable whether he ever envisaged trailer operation in its accepted sense, with trailers being detached at off-peak times.
(22) One significant advantage of electric vehicles is that their widespread use would make far better use of off-peak electricity.
(23) It's not expensive if you couple it to an off-peak Economy Seven meter.
(24) Crucially, the homeowner will be able to take advantage of significantly cheaper off-peak power – similar to the old Economy 7 tariff that would charge up storage heaters at night.
(25) A six-month pilot trial in Eindhoven last year showed that 70 percent of users changed their behavior as a result of pricing, by traveling either at off-peak hours or on less crowded roadways.
(26) If you want to do explicit garbage collection to reduce your application footprint, attempt to implement it so that it is done under low-load conditions or at off-peak hours.
(27) That meter will charge different prices for electricity depending on whether it's drawn during peak or off-peak hours.
(28) Already in progress are 59 public-sector initiatives to improve the lives of older New Yorkers, such as using school buses during off-peak hours for transport to nearby supermarkets.
(29) An example might be an order processing system that produces files containing order information so that the orders can be processed in batch during off-peak hours.
(30) Depending on the complexity of the set-up, this synchronization processing is better kicked off manually during defined maintenance windows in off-peak times.
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