busy season
Heavy workload time
Busy season is the time of year when a business or industry experiences its highest volume of work or customers.
Tax accountants have busy season from January through April; retailers peak around the holidays.
The term implies long hours and heightened pressure: I can't take vacation during busy season.
Opposite of slow season or off-season.
- peakUtmost height attained
- rushQuick sudden movement
- holiday rushBusy pre-celebration period
- crunchCrushing, grinding noise
- crunch timeHigh-pressure final stretch
hectic · overtime · long hours · deadline · harvest · holiday · retail · Christmas · tax · tourist · swamped · slammed · working overtime · frantic · hustle · demand · booking · surge
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- busy timesrush hour, morning rush, evening rush, lunch rush, prime time
- business calendarQ1, Q2, Q3, Q4, quarter
- activity patternsmorning routine, daily routine, sleep schedule, work schedule, eating habits
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
- work schedulesshift, day shift, night shift, graveyard shift, overtime
busy seasonoff-season
Low-demand period
slow period · low season · downtime · lull · down time
busy seasondowntime
Period of non-operation
slack time · lull · dead time · breathing room · respite
busy, season, busier, busiest, busily, business, seasonal, seasonally, seasons