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half-holiday

[ haf-hol-i-dey, hahf- ]

noun

  1. a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.


half holiday

noun

  1. a day of which either the morning or the afternoon is a holiday
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of half-holiday1

First recorded in 1545–55
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“Then, as in general you stick to your work as well as most men,” said Joe, “let it be a half-holiday for all.”

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Friday: Early hockey on a half-holiday Friday afternoon?

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It's our half-holiday, and if Cara will help me on Tuesday evening I can get my lessons done, so that I needn't do any on Wednesday.

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They obtained the Saturday half-holiday, and also release from work on the vigils of all feast days, and there were nearly forty of these in the year.

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He met his Housemaster but seldom, for he was naturally excluded from such unofficial hospitalities as Sunday breakfasts and half-holiday teas.

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