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• half-holiday
  half-holiday

  noun

  a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
• half holiday
  half holiday

  noun

  a day of which either the morning or the afternoon is a holiday

half-holiday

American  

[haf-hol-i-dey, hahf-] / ˈhæfˈhɒl ɪˌdeɪ, ˈhɑf- /

noun

1. a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.

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half holiday British  

noun

1. a day of which either the morning or the afternoon is a holiday

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Etymology

Origin of half-holiday

First recorded in 1545–55

Example Sentences

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half-holiday half holiday

Friday: Early hockey on a half-holiday Friday afternoon?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016

Some wanted to declare the half-holiday ended, argued that abnormal loans would cease just as withdrawals of cash from banks ended after the bank holiday.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is a half-holiday conceded to the slack-jawed weariness of the city.

From Time Magazine Archive

He decreed a half-holiday for all government workers, and of course a parade.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Why, what’ll you do with a half-holiday, if you get it?” said Joe.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

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

In Berlin one day last week all workers were given a half holiday with pay.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he won it, the school celebrated with a half holiday.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now the house was safe ground between luncheon and dinner; and there were few Thursday afternoons on which Enid did not come with her child to share Mrs. Marsden's weekly half holiday.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell