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break time

break time is the alternative form of breaktime.

Meaning of breaktime

Noun

breaktime (countable and uncountable, plural breaktimes)

  1. (US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.
    • Supervisor Laws asserts that when the incident occurred it was not the breaktime of either Tingler or Parnell. (4:760,789.)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, page 39
  2. (UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons.
    • It tends to evaluate the liking for, and the acceptance of, the pupils in their class as peers, rather than asking children to specifically select their friends, breaktime and home companions.1992, David Freer, Towards Open Schools: Possibilities and Realities for Non-Racial Education in South Africa, page 130

Forms of break time

pluralbreak times

Questions about break time

What is break time the alternative form of?
Break time is the alternative form of breaktime.

Words near break time in the dictionary

  1. break the silence
  2. break the story
  3. break the web
  4. break the wheel
  5. break through
  6. break time
  7. break times
  8. break up
  9. break upon the wheel
  10. break ups
  11. break water

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