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
Each spring Peters declares a half-holiday in honor of old grads who have made Phi Beta Kappa and other scholastic honors at college.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed baby and an Aberdeen woman celebrated her 100th birthday with the wish that Britain's princeling might live to celebrate his.
From Time Magazine Archive
He decreed a half-holiday for all government workers, and of course a parade.
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“Now, master! Sure you’re not a-going to favour only one of us. If Young Pip has a half-holiday, do as much for Old Orlick.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
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
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
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