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BANK HOLIDAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bank holiday mean?
• BANK HOLIDAY (noun)
The noun BANK HOLIDAY has 1 sense:
1. any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain
Familiarity information: BANK HOLIDAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("bank holiday" is a kind of...):
legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)
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