mental health day

noun

: a day that an employee takes off from work in order to relieve stress or renew vitality

Examples of mental health day in a Sentence

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Or take a mental health day from work when everyone is out of the house and take a luxurious daytime nap, read a fiction book, get an at-home massage, or park it on the couch with streaming services and full control of the remote. Allison Hope, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022 A few days before UConn women’s basketball’s game against No. 1 South Carolina, the coaching staff decided to give players a mental health day. Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2023 In the past few years, some parents have received a new item to put into their child-rearing tool kits: the school mental health day. Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022 How about adding a quarterly mental health day on top of PTO? Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022 See all Example Sentences for mental health day 

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mental health day was in 1971

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“Mental health day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mental%20health%20day. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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