half-holiday
noun
a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
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half holidaynouna day of which either the morning or the afternoon is a holiday
half-holiday
American
[haf-hol-i-day, hahf-]
/ ˈhæfˈhɒl ɪˌdeɪ, ˈhɑf- /
noun
half holiday
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of half-holiday
First recorded in 1545–55
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Friday: Early hockey on a half-holiday Friday afternoon?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016
Others wanted to turn the half-holiday into a quarter-holiday by limiting loans and surrenders to perhaps 50% of the normal allowance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still others wanted to keep the half-holiday in force.
From Time Magazine Archive
He decreed a half-holiday for all government workers, and of course a parade.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Then, as in general you stick to your work as well as most men,” said Joe, “let it be a half-holiday for all.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
In Berlin one day last week all workers were given a half holiday with pay.
From Time Magazine Archive
On another occasion, he strode out of his office at 5 p.m. and announced over his shoulder: "Today's a half holiday."
From Time Magazine Archive
When he won it, the school celebrated with a half holiday.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day, the Giants played the Indians in another exhibition game in Hattiesburg, Miss, where they were greeted by a brass band, a half holiday.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's one advantage in working all summer—a half holiday seems ten times more valuable now than usually.
From Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed
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