off air
English
Alternative forms
- off-air (especially attributive)
Prepositional phrase
off air
- Not broadcasting or transmitting on radio or television.
- Channel 9 will be off air from 11 pm until 6 am.
- The transmitter is off air after a fire.
- Not being, or so as not to be, broadcast or transmitted by radio or television.
- After ten years, the TV series was taken off air.
- Fortunately his offensive remarks were off air.
Synonyms
- off the air
- (of a TV or radio station that is shut down) dark, silent
Antonyms
- on air