breakroom
noun
a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
break room
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a variation of
breakroom.
Example Sentences
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The multidisciplinary artist rafa esparza was maybe 19 and in the break room of the now-defunct Orchard Supply Hardware in Pasadena when he first found out about the revolutionary art group Asco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
For instance, rather than have controllers eligible for a break spend the remaining half-hour of their shift in a break room, it would be fine to allow them to leave early.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He remembers the time - nearly 19:40 - and where he had been sitting - in the break room.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
The former break room: to become a black box theater.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
You might expect a bit of grumbling, some signs here and there of unrest—graffiti on the hortatory posters in the break room, muffled guffaws during our associate meetings—but I can detect none of that.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
