breaktime

== English == === Alternative forms === break time (more common in UK English) === Etymology === From break +‎ time. === Noun === breaktime (countable and uncountable, plural breaktimes) (US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work. 2007, National Labor Relations Board (U.S.) (editor), Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, Volume 346: November 28, 2005—May 8, 2006, page 39, Supervisor Laws asserts that when the incident occurred it was not the breaktime of either Tingler or Parnell. (4:760,789.) (UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons. ==== Synonyms ==== (break during school): lunchtime (hyponym), playtime, recess ==== Translations ====