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noun

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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Origin of bank holiday

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby bank holiday

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How to use bank holiday in a sentence

One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.
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Day a state holiday, 21 years after President Reagan made it a federal holiday.
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Not long after the holiday presents are put away and the guests have gone home, another season begins.
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While traveling this holiday season, a relative and I were pulled over by a police officer.
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Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.
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In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Thus far Boston banks have received more benefits from this bank than have the other banks in this district.
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The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
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At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.
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British Dictionary definitions for bank holiday

bank holiday

noun

(in Britain) any of several weekdays on which banks are closed by law and which are observed as national holidays

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bank holiday

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