PEAK SEASON | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of peak season in English

(Definition of peak season from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of peak season

peak season
Peak season for chicken wings is, by no small coincidence, also peak season for many sports lovers.
From TIME
That's also the end of the fiscal year, which is peak season for threats to shut down the government.
From NPR
Broccoli rabe's peak season runs from late fall through late spring, though it's available at most major supermarkets year-round.
From NPR
The peak season for illegal immigration is right around the corner.
Due to the amazing views, lines can get long during peak season.
From CNN
Ground deliveries have similar cutoff dates every year during the peak season.
It's peak season for trampoline injuries, most of which are minor bumps and bruises.
From CBS News
Want to take your free trip to a popular resort during peak season?
From ABC News
The warm and sunny days of late summer spell peak season for many destinations, but fewer crowds and great deals still exist -- if you know where to go.
Most fishers apparently harvest close to the best-practice frontier in the peak season, when conditions are most favorable.
The technical efficiency scores in the first 49 observations, corresponding to the peak season, are uniformly almost 1 and display little variation.
During the peak season, all vessels fall in the 0.80 to 1.0 range (table 5).
In the peak season, vessels average a catch per trip of 38,153 kg of fish from a trip of 346.8 hours using 32.2 persons.
Rates start at $30,000 a night, and may go up to $50,000 during peak season.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
 
 

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