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lunch hour

noun

  1. Also calledlunch break a break in the middle of the working day, usually of one hour, during which lunch may be eaten
  2. Also calledlunch time the time at which lunch is usually eaten


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Today is session three of the five-week lunch-hour course, “Meditation in Everyday Life,” at the New York Shambhala Center.

Now that you are here and it is lunch-hour, why not come with me.

Even at lunch-hour Una could not come to much understanding with the girls of the commercial college.

He even took advantage of his lunch-hour to make a declaration of the birth at the mayor's.

Men go to their work reluctant and resentful and reach out for the support which the lunch-hour brings.

By that time Mr. Bonbright was on hand with his sheaf of telegrams, and the lunch-hour was at hand ere they were cleaned up.

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