workday
- 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.
Academic text (2000) -
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.
Blog text (29) -
Hence, the workers' chief objective was not higher pay but a shorter workday.
Academic text (2000) -
Turner was generally in favor of the expansion of rights for all, including an eight-hour workday.
Academic text (2011) -
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
A period of work during which people do a job
A period of work during the day, usually from morning to afternoon, or the workers who work then
A day when someone usually works at their job
The hours when a person must work for their job
Times when someone works or is scheduled to work
A period of time when you are scheduled to work, for example morning or night
The hours an employee must work in one day for normal pay
Antonyms
How Long
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.