busy season

collocation in English

meaningsofbusyandseason

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withseason.
busy
adjective
uk
/ˈbɪz.i/us
/ˈbɪz.i/
If you are busy, you are working hard, or giving your attention to a ...
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season
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsiː.zən/us
/ˈsiː.zən/
one of the four periods of the year; spring, summer, autumn, ...
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(Definition ofbusyandseasonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbusy season

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Further, these examinations were undertaken in the wake of thebusyseason.
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That was well before thebusyseasonhad started.
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These holes are dug up and filled in again every year, generally during thebusyseason.
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It appeared that we had not taken into full account the exceedinglybusyseason.
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All three posts receive additional temporary staff during thebusyseason.
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Arrangements have also been made to facilitate the employment of roadmen in agriculture during thebusyseasonahead.
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They may be temporary assistants in abusyseason, and you do not know what they are going to say.
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Tram tours are available during thebusyseason.
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It is a most difficult thing for any farm in the country to do in thebusyseason, especially when harvesting is on.
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The small hotelier or cafe proprietor, running on a small margin, employing a married woman to help out in thebusyseasonis another example.
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It is theirbusyseason, but it is also the time of the year when their cash liquidity is at its lowest.
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For every thousand acres of sugar under beet, a hundred unskilled workers are employed in the factory during thebusyseason.
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The store employed 80 people during thebusyseasonin the early 1900s.
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He claims that it is hisbusyseasonand has to take it.
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A gallery runs down either side, and in thebusyseasonis also filled with tables.
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There the work is seasonal, and the farmers every winter do work of reparation and other kinds of work in anticipation of the nextbusyseason.
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At certain times of the day in thebusyseasonthere is already a conflict between different aeroplanes which wish to land at the same time.
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In every trade and industry there are alternations of busy and slack times, and in the slack times it is customary to make preparation for the nextbusyseason.
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No doubt more and more firms are finding it convenient during the slack season to turn off their labour for a short time until thebusyseasoncomes on again.
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The staff employed varies from time to time in proportion to the volume of work, and these numbers represent the staff at its highest figure during thebusyseason.
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In 1919, on account of the inadequacy of the facilities during thebusyseason, he requested an extra room be provided.
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Strikes are to be called when the employers can least afford a cessation of workduring thebusyseasonand when there are rush orders to be filled.
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