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means A room set aside in a workplace where employees are meant to rest, eat, or drink during work hours.

from A straightforward compound: 'break,' meaning a pause from labor (a sense of the word going back centuries, as in 'tea break' or 'coffee break'), plus 'room,' the physical space for it. The term rose alongside 20th-century office and factory culture, when labor norms began formally carving out rest periods — and the architecture followed, giving the pause an actual address.