Bank Holiday Definition

noun
A day on which banks are legally closed.
American Heritage
Any weekday on which banks are closed, as for a legal holiday.
Webster's New World
A legal holiday when banks are ordered to remain closed.
American Heritage
Any period during which banks are closed by government order, as during a financial crisis.
Webster's New World
Any of several legal holidays, usually on a Monday, when banks, schools, etc. are closed.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bank Holiday

Noun

Singular:
bank holiday
Plural:
bank-holidays

Bank Holiday Sentence Examples

  • Of all the public grounds within London this is the most valuable to the populace at large; the number of visitors on a Bank holiday in August is generally, under favourable conditions, about 100,000; and strenuous efforts are always forthcoming from either public or private bodies when the integrity of the Heath is in any way menaced.

  • If the last day of grace is a bank holiday (other than Christmas day or Good Friday), or when the last day of grace is a Sunday, and the second day of grace is a bank holiday, the bill is due and payable on the succeeding business day.

  • The Pool's Holiday bonanza Paul Ringham had a carp bonanza on the Fields End Pool during the Bank Holiday Open fished on Saturday.

  • Then again I wouldn't be so churlish as to oppose the Scots or Welsh having a bank holiday on their national day.

  • So we can only commiserate with RC Clubman Rob, whose 1957 Royal Enfield Bullet was stolen over the Bank Holiday.

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