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Definition of Bank Holiday
1. Noun. Any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain.
Definition of Bank Holiday
1. Noun. (alternative capitalization of bank holiday) ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly British) In Great Britain and some other countries, a weekday, often a Monday, on which most businesses are closed and granted to workers as a national holiday. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bank Holiday
Literary usage of Bank Holiday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"... are ,jue ^d payable on any such bank holiday shall be ing day. payable, ...
and not on such bank holiday; and any such noting or protest shall be as ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1907)
"CHAPTER V. Bank Holiday Speeches—Address to Viscount ... In the Bank Holiday
speeches, the most notable points were Mr. Churchill's prediction of a ..."
3. A Digest of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Cheques, and by Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers (1896)
"Day appointed for Dank holiday may be altered by Order in Council. bank holiday;
and any such noting or protest shall be as valid as if made on the day on ..."
4. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing (1918)
"Imagine a bank-holiday once a week! On Sunday I come down later than usual; I
make a change of dress, for it is fitting that the ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"If Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on a Sunday, the next Monday following
is the bank holiday. No person is compelled to make any payment or to do any ..."
6. Yesterdays in the Philippines by Joseph Earle Stevens (1898)
"vn A Series of Typhoons—A Chinese Feast-day—A Bank-holiday Excursion—Lost in the
Mist—Los Baños—The ..."
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