legal holiday; bank holiday.
A “legal holiday” is a day designated by law as a holiday, accompanied by the closing of most public offices and paid leave for most public employees. Observance of a legal holiday by the private sector is voluntary.
A legal holiday may be established by the national government (e.g., July 4 as Independence Day) or a state government (e.g., March 2 as Texas Independence Day, March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day in California and several other states, and the last Monday in March as Seward’s Day in Alaska).
A “bank holiday” is a day designated by law for the closing of banks and paid leave for bank employees. Bank holidays are standardized in many countries, but are not observed in the United States.
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Quotation of the Day: “Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. . . . That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write; whether I have profited or not, that is the way. It was so Keats learned, and there was never a finer temperament for literature than Keats’s.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Learning to Write 2-3, 4-5 (1888; repr. 1920).
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