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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of moonlight.

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Examples

  • And how about the fact that for years, LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines "moonlighted" on the board of Scholastic Books, earning him some $150,000 a year, and no one at LAUSD seemed to find this to be at all inappropriate - even though Scholastic holds a $10 million contract with the district.

    Fernando Espuelas: Time to Replace Los Angeles' Third World Education System 2010

  • J Q Entertainment made videos using employees of the SABC in-house production company Safritel, who "moonlighted" for Legodi.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Lodge kind of moonlighted in the Massachusetts Republicans and sort of worked his way up and left Harvard then and went into politics full-time and was eventually elected representative, I think, and then senator.

    The Justice from Beacon Hill 1991

  • On-duty security officers have regularly "moonlighted" for private commercial enterprises.

    unknown title 2009

  • Perhaps the most damning aspect of the Russian domestic security service -- that may actually lap over to the external intelligence service as well -- is the fact that on-duty security officers have regularly "moonlighted" for private commercial enterprises.

    The American Spectator 2009

  • "moonlighted," supplementing Qubwa's drug allocation with privately contracted and often inferior supplies.

    Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984

  • My behavioral psychologist had been bugging me so frequently to exercise that I wondered if he moonlighted as a Weight Watchers leader.

    Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

  • He moonlighted as a sports reporter on a show called "A Black's View of the News" on WCIU-TV, a small local station.

    'Soul Train' Creator Don Cornelius Dead at 75 Stephen Miller 2012

  • Ms. Handler worked as a secretary at Paramount Studios and moonlighted as her husband's sales force.

    Hot Wheels' Driver And Barbie's Dad Stephen Miller 2011

  • My behavioral psychologist had been bugging me so frequently to exercise that I wondered if he moonlighted as a Weight Watchers leader.

    Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

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