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nounauthorized by law and limiting work or official business• Syn: ↑legal holiday, ↑national holiday• Hypernyms: ↑holiday• Hyponyms:↑New Year's Day, ↑New Year's, ↑January 1, ↑Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, ↑Martin Luther King Day, ↑Presidents' Day, ↑Memorial Day, ↑Decoration Day, ↑Independence Day, ↑Fourth of July, ↑July 4, ↑Labor Day, ↑Columbus Day, ↑Discovery Day, ↑October 12, ↑Christmas, ↑Christmas Day, ↑Xmas, ↑Dec 25, ↑Boxing Day, ↑bank holiday, ↑Commonwealth Day, ↑Empire day, ↑May 24, ↑Dominion Day, ↑July 1, ↑Bastille Day, ↑14 July, ↑Veterans Day, ↑Veterans' Day, ↑Armistice Day, ↑November 11, ↑Thanksgiving, ↑Thanksgiving Day, ↑Victoria Day
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public holiday nounA general holiday• • •Main Entry: ↑public* * *
a bank holidayThesaurus: public and national holidayshyponym* * *
a day on which most of the shops/stores, businesses and schools in a country are closed, often to celebrate a particular event
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