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workday

[ wurk-dey ]

/ ˈwɜrkˌdeɪ /

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noun

a day on which work is done; working day.

the part of a day during which one works.

the length of time during a day on which one works: a seven-hour workday.

adjective

workaday.

Origin of workday

1400–50; late Middle English werkday, Old English weorcdæg. See work, day

Words nearby workday

workbasket, workbench, workboat, workbook, workbox, workday, worked, worked up, worked up, be, worked-up, worker

Example sentences from the Web for workday

They also allow us to return to the workday hubbub with more than bragging rights.

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And, in the way of roommates, they generally socialize at the end of the workday.

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During a single four-hour workday last week, a Mecklenburg County grand jury heard 276 cases and handed down 276 indictments.

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They held the show in, of all places, Midtown—in a sleek office building in the middle of the workday lunchtime crush.

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But they numbered just two dozen in all and barely disturbed the workday bustle of the national capital.

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(a) By shortening the workday in keeping with the increased productiveness of machinery.

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Did you review it and approve it when it was completed, after the end of the workday on November 22?

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It was Oliva's bedroom, and her workday hat and coat were lying on the bed.

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A date was immediately set—the first workday after New Year, when everything would be in running order again.

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Consider now that it is still lacking a few brief minutes of nine o'clock on a workday morning.

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British Dictionary definitions for workday

workday

/ (ˈwɜːkˌdeɪ) /

noun

the usual US term for working day

adjective

another word for workaday