Break may refer to:
- Break (locksmithing)
- Recess (break), a general term for a period of time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties
- Break (work), time off during a shift
- Coffee break, a daily social gathering for a snack and short downtime practiced by employees in business and industry
- Annual leave (holiday/vacation), paid time off work granted by employers to employees to be used for whatever the employee wishes
- Break (music), a percussion interlude or instrumental solo within a longer work of music
- Section break, in type setting
- Commercial break, in television and radio
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Famous quotes containing the word break:
“God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.”
—Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)
“Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn’t break and that the enemy’s did.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Oh, why can’t we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills?... I mean flee to my lodge in the hills.”
—Arthur Sheekman, screenwriter, and Norman McLeod. Monkey Business (film)