English-French translations for recess

• pause
  Devrait alors survenir une pause, pas plus longue toutefois que la pause estivale. There would then be a break, but just for the summer recess.
  À vrai dire, toutes les actions n'ont pu être entamées qu'après la pause estivale. The truth is that all the measures could be put in motion only after the summer recess.
  Mesdames et Messieurs, durant la pause estivale, une série de catastrophes aériennes tragiques ont eu lieu. Ladies and gentlemen, during the summer recess, a series of tragic air disasters occurred.
• recès
• alcôve
• recoin
  Il est temps de le reléguer aux sombres recoins de l'histoire. It is time that it was consigned to the dark recesses of history.
• récré
• récréation
• repos
  Mesdames et Messieurs, plus vite nous aurons voté, plus vite vous pourrez prendre votre repos bien mérité. Ladies and gentlemen, the sooner we vote, the sooner you can start your well-earned recess.
• ruelle
• vacances
  Celle-ci sera donc publiée avant les vacances parlementaires. So, we will have the communication before the summer recess.
  C'est la raison pour laquelle nous avions espéré que le Parlement pourrait voter avant les vacances. That is why we should have liked Parliament to vote on this before the recess.
  Je n'ai pas douté un seul instant que j'avais attrapé cette maladie en revenant à ce Parlement après les vacances d'été. I was in no doubt that I caught it when I came back to this Parliament after the summer recess.

Definition of recess

• A break, pause or vacation
• An inset, hole, space or opening
• A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime
• A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire
• A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat
• The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy
• A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion
• A secret or abstruse part
• A sinus
• To inset into something, or to recede
• To take or declare a break
• To appoint, with a recess appointment
• To make a recess in. Webster 1913--
• Remote, distant (in time or place

Examples

• Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
• Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
• Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.
• the recess of the tides
• the difficulties and recesses of science
• Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.
• Recess the screw so it does not stick out.
• This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.
• Class will recess for 20 minutes.
• to recess a wall

Related words

• recession
• recessive
• precession
• recessed
• recessively
• recessional
• precess
• recessionista
• antirecession