workday
IPA: wˈɝkdeɪ
noun
- (chiefly US) Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek. 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).
- (chiefly US) That part of a day in which work is done.
adjective
- Alternative form of workaday. [Suitable for everyday use.]
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Examples of "workday" in Sentences
- As soon as the workday is over I boot back into OSX.
- If an employee has to leave the site for an appointment, their workday is shot.
- One reason for the short workday is that Europeans seem to get sick a lot more than Americans.
- His 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. workday is so packed he's yet to put more than a picture of his two daughters on the wall.
- Conversely, if your workday is extremely boring, your mental activity will be low (a↓) and time will seem to go by slowly (s↓).
- I've gotten so I try to leave it in my office now at least on the weekends and only check every so often after the "workday" is finished, before starting dinner, after dinner and before bed.
- The era of the nine-to-five workday is officially over, if you ask me, because, the digital generation, whether X, Y or Z, wants to be connected and stay connected, whether for work or personal reasons.
- I came home briefly mid-day (which, in my workday is actually early evening) to change my clothes and make Coley a PB&J sandwich before I went back to work & I did sneak out for a bit to watch the tail end of an old Ted Koppel interview with the seemingly coked-up head of the Church of Scientology and a documentary about the Montana Militia vs. the "green nazis."
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