About 50 percent of the firms in Japan have acknowledged the necessity of giving their workers longer holidays, and think summer holidays are needed to give their workers both mental and physical refreshment.
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Refreshment
Synonyms for "refreshment" (111 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (55)
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4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
5 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
46 translations across 21 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀναψυχή noun (process of refreshing)
Bulgarian
4 entries- лека закуска noun (light snack or drink)
- ободряване noun (process of refreshing)
- освежаване noun (process of refreshing)
- освежителна напитка noun (light snack or drink)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ساردەمەنی noun (light snack or drink)
Dutch
3 entries- verademing noun (process of refreshing)
- verfrissing noun (process of refreshing)
- versnapering noun (light snack or drink)
Finnish
4 entries- piristys noun (process of refreshing)
- piristäminen noun (process of refreshing)
- virkistys noun (process of refreshing)
- virkistäminen noun (process of refreshing)
French
2 entries- rafraîchissement noun (process of refreshing)
- rafraîchissement noun (light snack or drink)
German
3 entries- Erfrischung noun (process of refreshing)
- Erfrischung noun (light snack or drink)
- Snack noun (light snack or drink)
Greek
1 entries- αναψυκτικό noun (light snack or drink)
Hebrew
1 entries- כִּבּוּד noun (light snack or drink)
Hungarian
4 entries- büféáru noun (light snack or drink)
- felfrissülés noun (process of refreshing)
- felüdülés noun (process of refreshing)
- frissítő hideg étel-ital noun (light snack or drink)
Japanese
1 entries- 気分転換 noun (process of refreshing)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thínglóuh noun (light snack or drink)
Macedonian
2 entries- освежителен пијалок noun (light snack or drink)
- освежување noun (process of refreshing)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forfriskning noun (light snack or drink)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forfrisking noun (light snack or drink)
Polish
2 entries- odświeżenia noun (process of refreshing)
- odświeżenie noun (process of refreshing)
Portuguese
1 entries- refresco noun (light snack or drink)
Russian
2 entries- заку́ска noun (light snack or drink)
- освеже́ние noun (process of refreshing)
Spanish
2 entries- refrescamiento noun (process of refreshing)
- refrigerio noun (light snack or drink)
Swedish
1 entries- förfriskning noun (light snack or drink)
Tamil
3 entries- சிற்றுண்டி noun (light snack or drink)
- புத்துணர்ச்சி noun (process of refreshing)
- புத்துணர்வு noun (process of refreshing)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Can I offer you some refreshment?
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It's time for some liquid refreshment. Who's going to buy the drinks?
Source: tatoeba (6994478)
Tom gave us some refreshment.
Source: tatoeba (11570166)
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