workday
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- noun
- /ˈwɜrkˌdeɪ/
- My workday usually starts at 9 AM and ends at 5 PM, giving me a full eight hours of work.
- an eight-hour workday
- a twelve-hour workday
- workdays lost
Examples
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Thus, attending a meeting can take up four to five hours of time during a workday.
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Ford revolutionized the workday by changing to an 8-hour workday with three shifts per day.
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At the same time, he cut the workday from nine hours to eight hours.
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Hence, the workers' chief objective was not higher pay but a shorter workday.
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Turner was generally in favor of the expansion of rights for all, including an eight-hour workday.
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He's for the eight-hour workday, fair income tax, better schools.
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A ten-hour workday in a five-day work week is very normal for academia.
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Some goals were not racially specific: an eight-hour workday, free immigration for all races, and distribution of land among veterans.
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My pleasure reading is decidedly non-fiction, as my workday is spent copyediting and proofreading fantasy, mostly.
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The cost of excessive absences and misuse of workdays lowers overall efficiency.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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A period of work during which people do a job
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Times when someone works or is scheduled to work
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The hours an employee must work in one day for normal pay
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A period of work during the day, usually from morning to afternoon, or the workers who work then
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A day when someone usually works at their job
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A period of time when you are scheduled to work, for example morning or night
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The hours when a person must work for their job
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Workday also comes from work + day, and it can mean the 'amount of time' you work in a single day, which is why we talk about a seven-hour or eight-hour workday.