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[NP; fixed WO]

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⇒ the busiest time(s) of day (for transport, when traffic is heaviest or the crowds are the greatest, or at the workplace, when the workload is heaviest or the level of activity is the greatest):

- busiest time(s) of (the) day;

- peak (hour <hours>);

- [in refer, to transport only] rush hour;

- [in refer, to the workplace only] most hectic <most frantic, craziest etc> time(s) of (the) day.