lunch break


Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

lunch break

or

lunchbreak

n
a time in the middle of the day when workers stop to eat lunch
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
Translations
polední přestávka
frokostpause
lounastauko
stanka za ručak
昼休み
점심시간
lunchrast
ช่วงหยุดพักอาหารกลางวัน
giờ nghỉ trưa

lunch break

n → intervallo del pranzo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

lunch break

→ اِسْتِرَاحَةُ غَدَاْءٍ polední přestávka frokostpause Mittagspause διάλειμμα για φαγητό pausa para comer lounastauko pause déjeuner stanka za ručak intervallo del pranzo 昼休み 점심시간 lunchpauze lunsjpause przerwa obiadowa intervalo para o almoço обеденный перерыв lunchrast ช่วงหยุดพักอาหารกลางวัน yemek molası giờ nghỉ trưa 午休时间
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
References in periodicals archive ?
His "lunch break" was taken in the place he was working and consisted of jam, cheese or if he was lucky, some kind of meat sandwiches washed down with a bottle of water.
Miners ate their lunch at coal face
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is considering extending its trading hours by eliminating its 90-minute lunch break in a bid to attract investors, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
TSE eyes extension of trading hours
SEVEN in 10 workers are too busy to take a lunch break, research revealed yesterday.
HUNGRY WORKERS
Wendy regularly stays late or delays her lunch break to ensure that visitors don't feel rushed and that they always have someone on hand who can answer questions.
BRONZE
EVERY day at 2pm Anna Addison gets up from her desk, sets her phone to voicemail and escapes her office for a lunch break.
Family Life: I'm a different person after taking my lunch break; Health and fitness
FRESH evidence about the UK's long hours culture was revealed in a new study showing that many people work through their lunch break, often because their boss asked them to.
Lunch breaks are 'thing of the past' in association with publicjobswales.co.uk
Employment experts are warning employers they are legally responsible to protect staff from burn-out following research that showed that the average worker's lunch break is just 19 minutes.
LEGAL MATTERS: When is an hour only 19 minutes long?
The average lunch break has fallen from 36 minutes in 2000 to the present 27 - a record low.
Lunch hour . . . what's that?
The alert was raised after one pupil took the tablets to school from home and shared them with a group of five of his friends in the lunch break.
Sex pills pupils in dash to hospital
The queue, as usual, reached the door, so I went to the inquiry desk, it being my lunch break.
Rude awakening
There's a lunch break - nothing like fratricide to work up an appetite - followed by "Partial mounting of the mythical leitmotif," with a unison hooting of all the assembled orchestras and brass bands.
Cruel and composed
One in three workers do not take a lunch break at work, saying they have too much to do and cannot afford to take time out, according to the research.
1 in 3 workers skip lunch breaks as job stress increases

Full browser ?