lunch break
noun
: the time when a person stops working or studying to have lunch
had to run errands during his lunch break
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Moore was sitting in her car during her lunch break when her therapist called to give her the news.
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Maya Miller, ProPublica, 31 Dec. 2024
Any amount of time spent flogging the Vantage in the hills of Malibu, either on a weekday lunch break or a Sunday cruise, provided the real peaks of my time with the loaner.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
But wait times stayed well under an hour statewide in the morning and early afternoon, even as a steady stream of voters rushed to the polls before working hours and while on lunch break.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
What hospital administrators don’t understand, especially when units are so short staffed, is that most nurses barely get a bathroom break, let alone two, 15-minute breaks and an uninterrupted 30-minute lunch break.
—Tracy Briggs, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2024
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Maya Miller, ProPublica, 31 Dec. 2024
Any amount of time spent flogging the Vantage in the hills of Malibu, either on a weekday lunch break or a Sunday cruise, provided the real peaks of my time with the loaner.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
But wait times stayed well under an hour statewide in the morning and early afternoon, even as a steady stream of voters rushed to the polls before working hours and while on lunch break.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
What hospital administrators don’t understand, especially when units are so short staffed, is that most nurses barely get a bathroom break, let alone two, 15-minute breaks and an uninterrupted 30-minute lunch break.
—Tracy Briggs, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2024
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“Lunch break.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20break. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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