(UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons.
(UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons.
: Supervisor Laws asserts that when the incident occurred it was not the breaktime of either Tingler or Parnell. (4:760,789.)
“Was this said in your primary school class when Maggie Thatcher got rid of the milk rations in the mid morning breaktime?”
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(British, Australia) A short break or rest period during the day when a cup of tea or coffee is drunk.
(US) A period during autumn where students are not attending school.
(Australia) A short rest break which an employee is entitled to take, shorter in duration than a lunchbreak.
(UK, childish) The time when pupils are expected to re-enter the school for lessons.
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(US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.
2007, National Labor Relations Board (U.S.) (editor), Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, Volume 346: November 28, 2005—May 8, 2006, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Iy3O7smbAjoC&pg=PA39&dq=%22breaktime%22|%22…
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