working day
Use Working day in a sentenceworking day
noun
1.
the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage.
2.
a day ordinarily given to working (distinguished from holiday ).
3.
the daily period of hours for working.
Origin:
1525–35
1525–35
kɪŋˌdeɪ
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| working day or esp (US) workday | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a day on which work is done, esp for an agreed or stipulated number of hours in return for a salary or wage |
| 2. | the part of the day allocated to work: a seven-hour working day |
| 3. | (often plural) commerce any day of the week except Sunday, public holidays, and, in some cases, Saturday |
| workday or esp (US) workday | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
The deadline for registering vehicles is the last working day of the expiration month of the current registration.
In cases where the dates above fall on a weekend or declared holiday, the deadline will be the next working day.
Facility is defined as a building and/or group of buildings where the employees may go back and forth within a working day.
But for many businesses, especially government ones, productivity plummets as the working day shortens by two or three hours.
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