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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 Britainplay

  Familiarity information: BANK HOLIDAY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BANK HOLIDAY (noun)


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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