0 a day when most people in a country do not have to work
1 an official public holiday when banks, schools, and many businesses in a country are closed for the day:
It’s a four-day national holiday with street parties, parades with colorful floats, and people wearing wonderful costumes.
In other words, today is not simply a national holiday but a day of celebration whose dimension is universal.
Does he accept that if a day is seen as a national holiday, everybody who works should have the benefit of it?
A national holiday is a day of national rejoicing and should not be a day of wage curtailment.
I should have thought it would be just as well if we accepted this trend and made a national holiday of that day.
It is also interesting that we are thinking of introducing a new national holiday and inventing a name for it.
There is no instance where there is a national holiday just because it is a bank holiday.
It was a national holiday.
