break

period of time during a shift in which an employee is allowed to take time off for meals, coffee, cigarettes, etc.

Class type of: pause, time interval Q1681122

Facts

3 properties

Subclass of: pause, time interval^[1]^[2]
Part of: job activity, work, labor law^[3]^[4]^[5]
Different from: coffee break^[6]

🏷️ Also known as

en break en work break ar استراحة cs pauza cs pracovní pauza de Pause de Arbeitspause es Pausa (laboral) fa استراحت (کار) fi tauko fr temps de pause fr break fr pause fr pause de travail hu szünet id istirahat kerja ja 休み時間 ko 휴식 시간 nl pauze ru пауза

🔖 Identifiers · 10

GND ID: 4142906-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Two Men Taking a Break.JPG ↗
BBC Things ID: e7d34425-f318-46a0-be24-4549774e8f8a
Freebase ID: /m/03wb8g7
Google Knowledge Graph ID: /g/11dyhy_f9
NL CR AUT ID: ph316307
WikiKids ID: Pauze
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 15295994-n, 07380745-n
YSA ID: Y184936
YSO ID: 26073

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🔗 Connections

Part of 3

work, labor law, job activity

Subclass of 2

pause, time interval

Different from 1

coffee break

Subtypes 1

coffee break

← Different from 1

coffee break

← Handled, mitigated, or managed by 1

repetitive strain injury

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Direct Wikidata claims

[1] ↑ break — subclass of (P279): pause. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ break — subclass of (P279): time interval. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ break — part of (P361): job activity. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ break — part of (P361): work. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ break — part of (P361): labor law. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ break — different from (P1889): coffee break. wikidata.org.

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