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lunch Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a meal that is eaten in the middle of the day:
- What's for lunch?
- UK We had a pub lunch.
- I'm sorry, Joanna isn't here at the moment, she's (gone) out to/gone to lunch.
- We must do lunch sometime (= have lunch together).
1 to eat lunch:
- I'm lunching with Giles.
2 a meal eaten in the middle of the day, or the food prepared for this meal:
- [ U ] We had soup and sandwiches for lunch.
- [ C ] I take my lunch to work.
3 a meal that is eaten in the middle of the day:
- be at/have/eat lunch I'm having lunch with Tomoko on Monday.
- go (out) to lunch I'm sorry, Joanna isn't here at the moment, she's gone out to lunch.
- take sb (out) for lunch I often take my clients out for lunch.
- We must do lunch sometime.
- over lunch I look forward to continuing our discussion over lunch.
- Our company provides buffet lunches for business meetings.
4 used for saying that you cannot get something for nothing:
- We all like the idea of more time off work but there is no such thing as a free lunch.
5 to eat a meal in the middle of the day:
- lunch with sb I'm lunching with Giles.

Why don't we have lunch together on Friday?
He managed to eat a big lunch despite having eaten an enormous breakfast.
Shall I heat up some soup for lunch?
We enjoyed a leisurely picnic lunch on the lawn.
We stopped at a roadside café for lunch.
The picture suggests that one child is having difficulty deciding what to have for lunch.
Each school independently determined lunch program qualification status, which was based on family income and the number of occupants in the household.
After a hearty lunch together, he shook hands with the students, who were in tears.