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work⋅a⋅day

  [wur-kuh-dey]
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–adjective
1. of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
2. ordinary; commonplace; everyday; prosaic.
Origin:
1150–1200; alter. (prob. after nowadays ) of earlier worky-day workday, alter. (by assoc. with holiday ) of ME werkeday, obscurely derived from work and day
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work·a·day   (wûr'kə-dā')   
adj.  

  1. Relating to or suited for working days; everyday.

  2. Mundane; commonplace: "the practical, workaday world, of ... ordinary undistinguished things" (Lionel Trilling).


[From Middle English werkeday, workday : werke (alteration of work; see work) + day, day; see day.]
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workaday 
c.1200, werkedei, from O.N. virkr dagr "working day;" see work (n.) + day. Older than workday (c.1430). It passed into an adj. 16c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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