bank holiday
noun
a weekday on which banks are closed by law; legal holiday.
bank holidays
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pluralof bank holiday.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They can be used at any time of day at the weekend and on bank holidays.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Tests have a standard fee of £62 on weekdays and £75 on evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Child benefit payments due on bank holidays will also be paid on a different date:
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
There were two additional bank holidays in 2022: one to mark the day of the late Queen's funeral, and another for the Platinum Jubilee to create a four-day weekend for commemorative events in early June.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2024
He did not, he felt, understand the working of this moratorium, or the peculiar advantage of prolonging the bank holidays.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
