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sleep-in adjective

• (of a domestic employee) resident in an employer's house.
• "a sleep-in babysitter"

sleep-in noun

• an instance of remaining asleep or in bed longer than usual in the morning.
• "a well-deserved sleep-in"
• a form of protest in which the participants sleep overnight in premises which they have occupied.
• "a student sleep-in began last night"

sleep in

• remain asleep or in bed later than usual in the morning.
• "life assumes a different rhythm on the weekend; we sleep in, cut the grass, wash the car"
• sleep by night at one's place of work.
• "he recalled the days when maids had to sleep in and were on call twenty-four hours a day"


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