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Meaning of "half holiday" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF HOLIDAY

half holiday play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF HOLIDAY

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Half holiday is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HALF HOLIDAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half holiday in the English dictionary

The definition of half holiday in the dictionary is a day of which either the morning or the afternoon is a holiday.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF HOLIDAY

half a dozen
half an eye
half an hour
half and half
half board
half coupling
half eagle
half fare
half frame
half gainer
half landing
half measure
half measures
half pay
half pint
half rest
half seas over
half step
half term
half tiger

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF HOLIDAY

activity holiday
adventure holiday
bank holiday
boating holiday
busman´s holiday
cycling holiday
federal holiday
Friday
general holiday
holiday
legal holiday
national holiday
package holiday
payment holiday
public holiday
Roman holiday
skiing holiday
statutory holiday
tax holiday
walking holiday
working holiday

Synonyms and antonyms of half holiday in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half holiday» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF HOLIDAY

Find out the translation of half holiday to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half holiday from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half holiday» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半假期
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio día de fiesta
570 millions of speakers

English

half holiday
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधी छुट्टी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عطلة نصف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

половина праздник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meio feriado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধ ছুটির দিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la moitié des vacances
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Setengah percutian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

halb Urlaub
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

半分休日
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

절반 휴일
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah liburan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa kỳ nghỉ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை விடுமுறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धा सुट्टी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yarım tatil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

metà vacanza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pół święto
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

половина свято
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jumătate vacanță
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισό διακοπών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half vakansie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halv semester
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halv ferie
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half holiday

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF HOLIDAY»

The term «half holiday» is regularly used and occupies the 87.837 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF HOLIDAY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «half holiday» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «half holiday» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half holiday

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF HOLIDAY»

Discover the use of half holiday in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half holiday and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Collective Bargaining Agreements for Police and Firefighters
1 3 agreements have an additional half-holiday; 2 agreements, 2 half -holidays; 1 agreement, 3 half-holidays; and 1 agreement, 4 half- holidays. 4 agreements have an additional half-holiday; 4 agreements, 2 half-holidays; and 3 agreements , ...
United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Richard Rex Nelson, John H. Chase, 1976
2
Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
establishments, it is clear that, as between such departments and establishments, there could be no uniformity as to the particular time of day at which the half- holiday commenced. Rather, it appears that each department and agency in the ...
United States. General Accounting Office, 1948
3
Cape Town: The Making of a City
The situation of domestic servants, migrant workers and shop assistants presents examples of conditions of work before the introduction of labour organisation. British THE HALF-HOLIDAY MOVEMENT ! I! CAPETOWN.' " ORNE, SlETMS:2SB!
Nigel Worden, Elizabeth Van Heyningen, Vivian Bickford-Smith, 2004
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Characteristics of major collective bargaining agreements, ...
Includes 2 agreements providing 7 full holidays and 1 half -holiday and 2 providing 7 full holidays and 2 half -holidays. 3 Includes 3 agreements providing 8 full holidays and 2 -half holidays. 4 Includes 6 agreements providing 9 full holidays ...
United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Janet L. Norwood, 1979
5
The Making of New Zealand Cricket, 1832-1914
The Saturday half- holiday—or any half-holiday for that matter—was still not standard for rural labourers after the turn of the century.93 Indeed, the desire for such a holiday was one of the first points delivered in evidence by the Canterbury  ...
Greg Ryan, 2004
6
Index digest of the published decisions of the Comptroller ...
Saturday half- holiday Executive order continuance: Executive order of May 9, 1927, providing for 4-hour day on Saturday from June to September remains applicable until modified or rescinded, to field employees of Interior Department who ...
United States. General Accounting Office, United States. General Accounting Office. Office of the General Counsel, 1929
7
Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City
Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday was a penny weekly comic paper published without a break from 1884 until 1916.' Among the most successful and long-lived of its kind in a very competitive sector of the new popular press, the paper's strength ...
Peter Bailey, 2003
8
A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and ...
Yet, in 1905, after one automobile plant granted its workers a Saturday half- holiday, other plants struck unsuccessfully for the same privilege. In 1906, the socialist Edouard Vaillant proposed the semaine anglaise in the Chamber and ...
Gary S. Cross, 1989
9
The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
Rural working hours also presented a barrier to cricket in that the Saturday half- holiday, or any half-holiday for that matter, was still not standard for rural labourers into the twentieth century and it seems that many of those who did have a ...
Anthony Bateman, Jeffrey Hill, 2011
10
Brave New World
- Comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces - Concise critical excerpts provide a scholarly overview of each work - "The Story Behind the Story" details the conditions under which ...
Aldous Huxley, 2009

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF HOLIDAY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half holiday is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Civil servants want holidays for lost 'banking time'
But now, the Sunday Business Post claims lower paid public sector staff are seeking a once-off award of four-and-a-half holiday days to make ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Jun 15»
2
Flashback June 2
... of the weather a great many of the merchants are planning to take in the ball game this afternoon in honor of the initial half holiday. «Brantford Expositor, Jun 15»
3
Tarun Gogoi condoles Janaki Ballabh Patnaik's death
89-year old Patnaik passed away this morning in Tirupati and the Assam government declared half holiday for all state government offices and ... «Economic Times, Apr 15»
4
Antigua declares half holiday for West Indies-England match on …
An official half holiday has been declared in Antigua and Barbuda for Monday, the first day of the first test match between the West Indies and ... «Zee News, Apr 15»
5
Huddersfield Police football and Meltham Rugby League team …
The police photo information states: “This team are members of the Police League and the Huddersfield Half Holiday League. In 1934/35 they ... «Huddersfield Examiner, Mar 15»
6
Casual restos: Landry et Filles winner, from the outside in
I got the bird to go, and the resulting dinner was half holiday feast, half mid-week pickup meal. With the leftover peas and carrots, it was like a ... «Montreal Gazette, Feb 15»
7
'Parabellum': Rotterdam Review
... citizens join Hernan at an establishment that's half boot-camp, half holiday resort where they are taught basic survival and combat methods. «Hollywood Reporter, Jan 15»
8
Some union workers may miss new February holiday
For example, if they got a half holiday for New Year's Eve or Christmas Eve … that could now be switched for a full day February holiday,” she ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Oct 14»
9
Yes, 87500 Macy's Workers Won't Get Thanksgiving Holiday, But …
Further, those workers will all receive time-and-a-half holiday pay for their full shifts, Thomas says. And surprisingly, the largest union local ... «In These Times, Oct 13»

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