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Workday   /wˈərkdˌeɪ/   Listen
Workday

noun
1.
A day on which work is done.  Synonyms: work day, working day.
2.
The amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage.  Synonym: working day.






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"Workday" Quotes from Famous Books



... that his little eyes flashed. "There is something hidden in the fellow," said he. "For all that he is so crabbed and crusty outside, like an everlasting workday, another man is hidden in him, as fine as Sunday, whether you believe me or not. He appreciates everything beautiful. Mean he may be, and thorny and quarrelsome and quick with his fists. For instance, the token that he marked the ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various

... their faces glad to gladden me, And all the causeways gay; yet have I learned This is not daily life, and if I stand Nearest, my father, to the realm and thee, Fain would I know the people and the streets, Their simple usual ways, and workday deeds, And lives which those men live who are not kings. Give me good leave, dear Lord, to pass unknown Beyond my happy gardens; I shall come The more contented to their peace again, Or wiser, father, if not well content. Therefore, I pray thee, let me go at will ...
— The Light of Asia • Sir Edwin Arnold



Words linked to "Workday" :   duty period, shift, work day, working day, work shift, day, rest day, person hour, man hour, weekday



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