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Definition: Workday |
WorkdayNoun1. A day on which work is done. 2. The amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage; "they work an 8-hour day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "workday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
Note: Workday \Work"day`\, noun. adjective. [from Anglo-Saxon expression weorcd[ae]g.]. (references) |
Synonyms: WorkdaySynonyms: work day (n), working day (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: rest day (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Workday |
| English words defined with "workday": sidereal day. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "workday": ROW BOSS, HOEING. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "workday": Workyday. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Workday 5" by Dan Mulligan Commentary: "Working on my old mac laptop." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Most of the sounds in the environment that produce such permanent effects occur over a very long time (for example, about 8 hours per workday over a period of 10 or more years). (references) | |
Business | The standard workday and workweek are 8 hours a day, 6 days per week, but these standards are not strictly enforced. (references) | |
Economic History | Peru | The 1993 constitution provides for a maximum workday of 8 hours, with 48 hours as the maximum week. (references) |
Political Economy | THAILAND | The usual workday in industry is eight hours. (references) |
MEXICO | Eight hours is the legal workday and six days the legal workweek. (references) | |
Travel | Colombia | On the last workday of the month, banks close at noon. (references) |
Mexico | The length of the workday varies depending on the region of the country and the type of organization. (references) | |
Mexico | In the north the workday may begin and end earlier with lunch at 1:00 P.M.. Federal government offices in Mexico City traditionally have started work at about 10:00 A.M., with a break at 2:00 or 3:00 P.M. for lunch and a return at 5:00 P.M. or 6:00 P.M to work into the evening until 9:00 P.M.. Beginning April 1, 1999, the federal government issued new instructions for offices to operate between the hours of 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM with flexible arrival and departure times for employees. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Tuvalu | The workday by law is set at 8 hours. (references) |
Syria | In some cases a 9-hour workday is permitted. (references) | |
Cameroon | The law also states that a child's workday cannot exceed 8 hours. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
David Berkowitz | Well, I have my time at the end of the workday. I can go to the chapel on nights we have Bible studies or services, or I can stay back on other nights and write letters. I read and so forth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Workday" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Workday" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lost rate workday | 5 |
workday | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "workday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ditë pune (labour day, working day). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | работен ден (working day), делник (weekday, working day). (various references) | |
Chinese | 工作日. (various references) | |
Czech | pracovní den (weekday, working day). (various references) | |
Farsi | ساعات کاراداری , ایام کاراداری , روزکار. (various references) | |
Finnish | arkipäivä (week-day). (various references) | |
French | jour ouvrable (workingday). (various references) | |
German | Werktag (working day, workingday). (various references) | |
Greek | ημέρα εργασίασ (working day). (various references) | |
Hungarian | munkanap (working day). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 振替休日 (compensatory holiday, exchange workday for holiday). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふりかえきゅうじつ (compensatory holiday, exchange workday for holiday). (various references) | |
Korean | 평일 (weekday). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orkdayway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dia de trabalho (day-work), dia útil (business day, weekday, weekway). (various references) | |
Romanian | zi de lucru (weekday). (various references) | |
Russian | будний день (black-letter day, weekday, week-day). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | radni dan (weekday, working day). (various references) | |
Spanish | día laborable (business day, weekday). (various references) | |
Swedish | arbetsdag (working day). (various references) | |
Turkish | iş günü (daytime, weekday, working day), çalışma günü (weekday, working day). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngày làm việc, ngày công. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "workday": workdays. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "workday" (pronounced wer"kdā') |
| 3 | -k d ā' | weekday. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: daywork. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-k-o-r-w-y" | |
-2 letters: dorky, dowry, rowdy, wordy. | |
-3 letters: awry, dark, dawk, dork, dory, draw, dray, kayo, kyar, okay, okra, orad, road, wady, ward, wark, wary, woad, word, work, yard. | |
-4 letters: ado, ark, dak, daw, day, dor, dow, dry, kay, koa, kor, oak, oar, oka, ora, rad, raw, ray, rod, row, rya, wad, war, way, wok, wry. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-k-o-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: dayworks, workaday, workdays, yardwork. | |
+2 letters: yardworks. | |
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