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noun
any of the hours of a day during which work is done, as in an office, usually between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Also, work·hour, working hour.
Origin:
1840–50
1840–50
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working hours
the proportion of a person's time spent at work. Hours of labour have declined significantly since the middle of the 19th century, with workers in advanced industrial countries spending far fewer hours per year in a given place of work than they did formerly.
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