workday

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a day on which a person normally works rather than taking time off

   Please allow three workdays for the payment to clear.

2. 2
   noun

   the period of a day during which a person works

   Her workday begins at seven and ends in the late afternoon.

3. 3
   adj

   used or worn for ordinary work; practical and everyday rather than formal

   A man in workday clothes rode past on an old-fashioned tricycle.

From Middle English werkdai and Old English weorcdæg, a compound of work + day. The noun names either a day devoted to work or its working hours; the older attributive use, as in workday clothes, overlaps with workaday and means ordinary or suited to work.

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