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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
workday
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a 10-hour workday
▪ It'll take four workdays to process the application.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although he commutes up to three hours on workdays, he does so by choice.
▪ But she was advertising from the piano bench and specializing in private sessions to augment her income after her musical workday.
▪ Evenings and Sundays were as hyperthyroid as the long workdays.
▪ It is another workday for most of the city, but down at City Hall, it will be something special.
▪ The following day is filled with fatigue and irritability, and just making it through the workday is a major feat.
▪ The number of workdays lost and of workers involved rose steeply from 1912.
▪ They tell stories about work and express their feelings about their workday.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Workday

Workday \Work"day`\, n. & a. [AS. weorcd[ae]g.] A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
workday

Old English weorcdæg, from work (n.) + day (n.). The modern word is perhaps a Middle English re-formation. As an adjective (c.1500) it has generally only the literal sense (compare workaday).

Wiktionary
workday

a. workaday n. 1 Any of the days of a week on which work is done. The five '''workdays''' in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends). 2 That part of a day in which work is done.

WordNet
workday
  1. n. a day on which work is done [syn: working day, work day] [ant: rest day]

  2. the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage; "they work an 8-hour day" [syn: working day]

Wikipedia
Workday

Workday may refer to:

  • Workday, Inc., a cloud-based business applications company
  • A day in the workweek
  • Work day, the period of time in a day spent at paid occupational labor

Usage examples of "workday".

But suppose that every Workday morning and Loafday noon I should bring you a tiny pill that would give you all the good effects of moonmist and none of the bad.

He spent the last hour of the workday behind a locked door, plotting, stealing employees, debating which lawyers and which paralegals might fit.

Cyclists, many more than Minogue saw on ordinary workdays, swarmed around the jams, skittering over the kerbs and plainly enjoying themselves.

For this he had the Angels, a vehicle for his humor and fantasies, a sop for any aggressions and an occasional chance to bust out of the workday murk like some kind of saber-rattling golem and lay at least a small jolt on people he had no other way of reaching.

The remainder of JoLayne's workday: cat (Daisy), three kittens (unnamed), German shepherd (Kaiser), parrot (Polly), cat (Spike), beagle (Bilko), Labrador retriever (Contessa), four Labrador puppies (unnamed), and one rhinoceros iguana (Keith).

She taught school and would have been in the classroom unless, of course, it was a Teacher-Optional Workday, in which case she might have opted to stay home and prepare macaroni and cheese, although that was extremely unlikely for one as conscientious as Mildred.

After supper and a full workday on the prison farm, the boys were locked up for 14 hours.

Ling (whoever’s turn it was) for the workday and walk -- stroll really, pacing out the city with the sword-cane, which had become part of his daily regalia, wearing soft, black-leather walking shoes and an expensive, secondhand suit that had been retailored at his cleaner’s in Chinatown.

Had the company been forced into flight at the beginning or the end of the workday, their deception might have been given away by the sheer accident of a busy gray dwarf bumping into their invisible chain as they skulked down the street.

Zack muttered, peeved at the prospect of ending his workday soaking wet.

You can consider cutting back, simplifying your lifestyle, changing jobs, shifting from full- to part-time work, cutting commuting time by having fewer, longer workdays or working closer to home, participating in job sharing, or creating a virtual office in your home.