A designated time of day, usually a break, when people drink coffee or take a coffee break.
Compound of 'coffee' (from Arabic qahwah) and 'time' (from Old English tīm). This term became formalized in 20th-century workplace culture, particularly in European business practices.
Many countries have 'coffee time' as official culture—Germany's 'Kaffeezeit' and Scandinavia's 'fika' are so important that taking them away reduced worker productivity more than giving people more vacation days!
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