bank holiday
a weekday on which banks are closed by law; legal holiday.
British. a secular day on which banks are closed, obligations then falling due being performable on the following secular day.
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How to use bank holiday in a sentence
And so he did, proclaiming a four-day bank holiday on March 7.
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 7, FDR proclaimed a four day bank holiday.
Indeed, it made me understand for the first time that even a bank holiday need not be a day of wrath and mourning.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensThe contractors were under time-penalties to be ready for the formal opening on the forthcoming August bank holiday.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsSunday is with them only a regularly recurring bank holiday.
Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies
bank holiday courtship (if the inappropriate word can be pardoned) seems to be done, in real life, entirely by banter.
Ceres' Runaway | Alice MeynellIt makes me sick to think of having to trust to an accident like that, like a lubberly cockney out for a boozy bank holiday sail.
The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers
British Dictionary definitions for bank holiday
(in Britain) any of several weekdays on which banks are closed by law and which are observed as national holidays
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