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proholiday

proholiday adjective: in favour of a public holiday.

Adjective

proholiday (comparative more proholiday, superlative most proholiday)

  1. In favour of a public holiday.
    • As it happens, the King holiday proposition had broad white support and lost by a narrow margin. […] Warren Stewart, the Baptist minister who led the proholiday movement, denounced [the video] as "an insult to the memory of Dr. King and a terrible lesson for our young people."1996, Martha Bayles, Hole in Our Soul (page 360)

Forms of proholiday

comparativemore proholiday
superlativemost proholiday

Origin of proholiday

From pro- + holiday.

Questions about proholiday

What does proholiday mean?
Proholiday means in favour of a public holiday.
What part of speech is proholiday?
Proholiday is an adjective.

Words near proholiday in the dictionary

  1. prohibitorily
  2. prohibitors
  3. prohibitory
  4. prohibits
  5. prohis
  6. proholiday
  7. prohormonal
  8. prohormone
  9. prohormones
  10. prohypertensive
  11. prohypertrophic

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