"school meal" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: school meals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} school meal (plural school meals)
  1. a meal, usually lunch, provided by an organization to attendees or participants, such as by a school to its students or by a company to its employees Wikipedia link: school meal Categories (topical): Meals Translations (meal provided by school or organization): skoolvoeding (Afrikaans), kouluateria (Finnish), kouluruoka (Finnish), kouluruokailu (Finnish), Schulspeisung [feminine] (German), 給食 (kyūshoku) (alt: きゅうしょく) (Japanese), 급식 (geupsik) (alt: 給食) (Korean), refeição escolar [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), merenda escolar [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), skolmat [common-gender] (Swedish), bambamat [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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