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The only meeting in your life that ends with everyone running away from the table.
means A temporary break from work or business — the pause when a session stops and everyone scatters until it resumes.
from From Latin recessus, 'a going back, a retreat,' built from recedere — re- ('back') plus cedere ('to go, to yield'). The same root gives us 'recede,' which is really the honest ancestor here: a recess is just a tide going out, whether it's water leaving a shoreline or a judge leaving a bench.
- congress uses it
- Lawmakers also get recess, same word, less dodgeball
- architecture meaning
- A recess is also a wall niche, a literal retreat space
- brain benefit
- Studies show recess improves kids focus more than extra class time