legal holiday

Questions about legal holiday

What does legal holiday mean?

legal holiday means "authorized by law and limiting work or official business".

What is another word for legal holiday?

Close synonyms include national holiday, public holiday. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal holiday a common word?

legal holiday is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.