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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Instead, try to spend some time with that colleague solo like during your lunch break. —

Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 While more workers are skipping their midday meals, a whopping 98% of those surveyed still believe a lunch break improves their job performance. —

Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024 Inside, a small crowd of home health aides, janitors, and school-cafeteria workers, most of them Black or Hispanic, were on a lunch break, after a morning of canvassing. —

Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024 My partner in life deserves someone by her side day in and day out, not someone that calls on lunch break to check in. —

Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lunch break