paid holiday

collocation in English

meaningsofpaidandholiday

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paid
adjective
uk
/peɪd/us
/peɪd/
being given money ...
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holiday
noun
uk
/ˈhɒl.ə.deɪ/us
/ˈhɑː.lə.deɪ/
UK ; ;
a time when someone does not go to work or school but is free to do what they want, such as travel ...
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(Definition ofpaidandholidayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Many treated the occasion as apaidholiday, which was a luxury in the tea garden world.
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Such latent tensions came to a head in 1930 over the issue of granting twelve dayspaidholidayfor municipal employees.
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The ancillary staff get three weeks'paidholidayas well as the six days' normal paid public holidays.
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As he knows, the working time directive provides the right to four weeks'paidholiday, but not to count bank holidays on top of that.
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Up to 3.8 million workers could be affected by the directive'spaidholidayprovisions.
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There is a national minimum wage; there is an entitlement to four weekspaidholiday; and there are new rights for part-time workers.
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A staff employee is entitled to hispaidholiday, his pension and to all kinds of benefits which a freelance journalist does not receive.
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It has proved impossible, for example, to use the working time directive to give them four weeks'paidholiday.
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In coastal areas like mine, it is almost as if it is apaidholidayfor young people, even a sort of early retirement.
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Does he agree that the directive, which will bringpaidholidayto 8 million low-paid workers, will be welcomed?
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We are giving many women the chance ofpaidholidayfor the first time in years.
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The directive establishes a 48-hour working week, four weeks'paidholidayand at least 35 consecutive hours off each week.
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He points out that after 20 years' service a civil servant of medium rank would get six weeks'paidholiday.
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It is not easy to recall that, not so long ago, apaidholidayof any length for an industrial worker was almost unknown.
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For example, there is an entitlement to four weekspaidholidaya year.
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It will put some restrictions on night work and it will entitle people to three weeks'paidholiday, rising to four.
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The figure also includes the right to four weekspaidholidaya year.
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However, she did not mention that £6.6 billion of that is the cost of providing an entitlement to four weeks'paidholidaya year.
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We have introduced the right for every worker to have four weekspaidholidaya year.
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There are no data currently available at constituency level concerning the number of workers who have gained an entitlement to four weekspaidholiday.
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