break room

noun

variants or less commonly breakroom

ˈbrāk-ˌrüm 

-ˌru̇m

plural break rooms also breakrooms

: a room in a workplace where an employee can go for a short period of rest or refreshment

At lunchtime I ordered pizza for the staff and we all ate together, somewhat stiffly, in the break room.

—Heidi Julavits

Bumping into each other in the breakroom or chatting in the elevator sometimes leads to unexpected collaboration and creative solutions.

—Elizabeth Baskin

Examples of break room in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

No family should have to rely on asking the right question at the right moment or meeting the right mother in a break room. — Danielle Stephens, USA Today, 26 July 2026

Bryan Regis, 26, manager at Xclusive Grills, about a block from the warehouse, said workers at his shop had set up a small break room and blasted a large fan their way to keep flies away from their food. — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

The Clerk’s Office said a $1,414 catering bill for coffees, sweets and sodas in a break room in the Capitol’s Cannon Building also was not refundable. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

The incidents allegedly took place in the break room inside Publix when the victim's mother had no one else to watch her. — Anna McAllister, CBS News, 14 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for break room

• assume
• backroom
• ballroom
• barroom
• bathroom
• bedroom
• boardroom
• bridegroom
• classroom
• cloakroom
• consume
• costume