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lunch | Business English

be at/have/eat lunch I'm having lunch with Tomoko on Monday.

go (out) to lunch I'm sorry, Joanna isn't here at the moment, she's gone out to lunch.

take sb (out) for lunch I often take my clients out for lunch.

there is no such thing as a free lunch

used for saying that you cannot get something for nothing:

We all like the idea of more time off work but there is no such thing as a free lunch.

See also

lunch with sb I'm lunching with Giles.

(Definition of lunch from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of lunch

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The picture suggests that one child is having difficulty deciding what to have for lunch.

Each school independently determined lunch program qualification status, which was based on family income and the number of occupants in the household.

After a hearty lunch together, he shook hands with the students, who were in tears.

Table 1 lists the parent educational level and lunch status of the participants by group.

Other foods served at school lunches were not associated with illness.

These are the folks who learn to take notes at important meetings while downing lunch simultaneously.

Approximately 24% of the sample reported receiving free lunch at school at the beginning of middle school.

But perhaps it's only right that the reader should have some work to do: after all, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

As for the second indicator, education, the use of the pair _lunch_-dinner is higher among the more educated.

As there is no free lunch, this favourable scaling is obtained at the price of approximations in the model itself.

According to parent report, forty percent of the children participated in the school lunch program.

Based on available information for 91% of the youth, 31% received a federally subsidized school lunch.

The only common exposure we identified was eating the school lunch.

Now he is going for lunch into the dining room, and has left his book in the common room.

I only request that you should treat me to lunch sometime.

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