"coffee break" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: coffee breaks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} coffee break (plural coffee breaks)
  1. A rest period during the business day (usually of about 10 or 15 minutes). So named because it is an opportunity to get coffee. Wikipedia link: coffee break Categories (topical): Coffee, Rest Synonyms: coffee pause (english: non-native speakers' English), fika Related terms: tea break, water break, elevenses Translations (a rest period during the business day providing the opportunity to drink coffee): kaffepause [common-gender] (Danish), koffiepauze [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), kohvipaus (Estonian), kahvitauko (Finnish), kahvipaussi (Finnish), pause-café [feminine] (French), Kaffeepause [feminine] (German), kávészünet [feminine] (Hungarian), sos caife [masculine] (Irish), briseadh caife [masculine] (Irish), コーヒーブレイク (kōhī bureiku) (Japanese), kaffepause [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kaffipause [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), przerwa na kawę [feminine] (Polish), ко́фе-бре́йк (kófe-brɛ́jk) [masculine, neologism] (Russian), kafferast [common-gender] (Swedish), kaffepaus [common-gender] (Swedish), kahve molası (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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