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half-term

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Noun1.half-term - a short vacation about halfway through a school term; "he came to visit at half-term"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
holiday, vacation - leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"


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Mandated by Resolution 1559, which had scraped by with a mere nine votes for, and six abstentions, Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported that there were indeed still Syrian troops in Lebanon, and that the Lebanese parliament had indeed changed its constitution to allow President Emile Lahoud an extra half-term.
Against backdrop of killings in Gaza and Darfur, U.S. and France ... by Williams, Ian / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
No sooner had the election results arrived than the allegedly liberal mass media joined their triumphant opponent, Rush Limbaugh, in characterizing the hapless Clinton as the first half-term president in American history.
Baby in the house by Hoberman, J. / Artforum International
The railways were on strike so the school had to charter buses to take us home at half-term.
Three comments by Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose / The National Interest
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