awayday
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of awayday
C20: from awayday ticket, name applied to some special-rate railway day returns
Example Sentences
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To do so, Mrs May held an awayday for the cabinet at her country residence - Chequers - in July.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2018
“I remember going to an awayday with Blair and his policy team at Chequers, about two years in,” Leadbeater told me, “and saying, ‘The state can’t solve everything.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2015
No one in attendance should have been in any doubt that the contents of the awayday mattered.
From The Guardian • May 4, 2013
On a recent awayday to inspire his commissioning team to be "proper world class", they watched clips of TV and films they felt warranted the accolade.
From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2012
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