workday

See also: work day and Workday

English

Alternative forms

• work day

Etymology

From Middle English werkdai, werkedei, werkedai, from Old English weorcdæġ (“workday”), equivalent to work +‎ day. Cognate with West Frisian wurkdei (“workday”), Dutch werkdag (“workday”), German Low German Warkdag (“workday”), German Werktag (“workday”). See also workaday.

Pronunciation

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Noun

workday (plural workdays)

1. (chiefly US) Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek.

   It will take five workdays to process your application.

2. (chiefly US) That part of a day in which work is done.

   My workday is 8 hours.

Synonyms

• working day (mainly UK)
• (part of the day): 9 to 5, nine to five
• (day on which work is done): weekday
• (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day
• jobday

Meronyms

• beginning of day, end of day, EOD, close of business, COB, quitting time

Coordinate terms

• worknight

Derived terms

• teacher workday

Translations

day on which work is done

• Altai:

  Southern Altai: ишкӱн (iškün)

• Bulgarian: делник (bg) m (delnik), работен ден (raboten den)
• Catalan: dia feiner m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工作日 (zh) (gōngzuòrì)

• Danish: arbejdsdag (da) c
• Dutch: werkdag (nl) m
• Esperanto: labortago
• Finnish: työpäivä (fi)
• French: jour ouvrable (fr) m
• Galician: día solto m, día laborable m
• Hindi: कार्यदिवस m (kāryadivas)
• Hungarian: munkanap (hu)
• Icelandic: virkur dagur
• Kumyk: иш гюн (iş gün)
• Macedonian: делник m (delnik), работен ден m (raboten den)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidsdag (no) m

• Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
• Plautdietsch: Woakjeldach m
• Polish: dzień powszedni (pl) m, dzień roboczy (pl) m
• Portuguese: dia útil (pt) m
• Romanian: zi lucrătoare f
• Russian: рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ), будний день m (budnij denʹ), трудодень (ru) m (trudodenʹ)
• Spanish: día laborable m, día hábil m, día laboral m
• Vietnamese: ngày công (vi), ngày làm việc

part of a day on which work is done

• Bulgarian: работно време (rabotno vreme)
• Catalan: jornada diària f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工作時間 / 工作时间 (gōngzuò shíjiān)

• Danish: arbejdsdag (da) c
• Finnish: työpäivä (fi)
• French: journée de travail f
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} munkaidő (hu)
• Macedonian: работно време n (rabotno vreme)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidsdag (no) m

• Polish: roboczodniówka f
• Romanian: timp zilnic de lucru n
• Russian: рабочее вре́мя n (rabočeje vrémja), рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ)
• Spanish: jornada (es) f

See also

• day off, time off, PTO (often antonymous, but one can be off during a workday)
• schoolday
• weekend (often antonymous, depending on one's work schedule)

Adjective

workday (comparative more workday, superlative most workday)

1. Alternative form of workaday.

Related terms

• workaday

Anagrams

• day work, day-work, daywork