working day

English

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Noun

working day (plural working days) (mainly UK)

1. Any of those days of a week on which work is done, officially Monday to Friday in many countries (even though many people work on weekends).

   It will take five working days to process your application.

2. The part of a day in which work is done; the number of hours one must work per day for a specified wage.

   Your working day is 8 hours.

   • 1979, Robert Hazard, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, in She's So Unusual‎^[1], performed by Cyndi Lauper, published 1983:

     That's all they really want / Is some fun / When the working day is done / Oh, girls, they wanna have fun / Oh, girls just wanna have...

Synonyms

• workday (mainly US)
• (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

Translations

day of a week in which work is done

• Albanian: ditë pune f
• Arabic: يَوْم عَمَل m (yawm ʕamal) (indefinite), يَوْم الْعَمَل m (yawm al-ʕamal) (definite)
• Armenian: աշխատանքային օր (ašxatankʻayin ōr)
• Azerbaijani: iş günü
• Belarusian: працо́ўны дзень m (pracówny dzjenʹ)
• Bengali: কর্মদিবস (kormodiboś)
• Bulgarian: рабо́тен ден m (rabóten den), де́лничен ден m (délničen den)
• Catalan: dia feiner m, dia laborable m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 工作日 (gung¹ zok³ jat⁶)

  Mandarin: 工作日 (zh) (gōngzuòrì)

• Czech: pracovní den (cs) m
• Danish: arbejdsdag (da) c
• Dutch: werkdag (nl) m
• Esperanto: labortago
• Estonian: tööpäev (et)
• Finnish: työpäivä (fi)
• French: jour ouvré (fr) m, jour ouvrable (fr) m
• Galician: día solto m
• Georgian: სამუშაო დღე (samušao dɣe)
• German: Arbeitstag (de) m, Werktag (de) m
• Greek: καθημερινή (el) (kathimeriní), εργάσιμη (el) (ergásimi)
• Hebrew: יוֹם עֲבוֹדָה m (yom avodá)
• Hindi: कार्यदिवस m (kāryadivas), कार्य दिवस m (kārya divas), काम का दिन m (kām kā din)
• Hungarian: munkanap (hu)
• Icelandic: virkur dagur m
• Indonesian: hari kerja (id)
• Irish: lá oibre m
• Italian: giorno lavorativo m
• Japanese: 仕事日 (しごとび, shigotobi), 労働日 (ja) (ろうどうび, rōdōbi), 平日 (ja) (へいじつ, heijitsu), 勤務日 (きんむび, kinmubi)
• Kazakh: жұмыс күні (jūmys künı)
• Korean: 근무일(勤務日) (geunmu'il), 평일(平日) (ko) (pyeong'il)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: roja kar

• Kyrgyz: иш күнү (iş künü)
• Latvian: darba diena f
• Lithuanian: darbo diena f
• Luxembourgish: Aarbechtsdag (lb) m, Schaffdag (lb) m
• Macedonian: ра́ботен ден m (ráboten den), делник m (delnik)
• Malay: hari kerja, hari bekerja
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hverdag (no) m, arbeidsdag (no) m, virkedag m

  Nynorsk: kvardag m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: روزِ کاری (ruz-e kâri)

• Polish: dzień powszedni (pl) m, dzień roboczy (pl) m
• Portuguese: dia útil (pt) m
• Romanian: zi lucrătoare f, zi de muncă (ro) f
• Russian: рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: радни дан m

  Latin: radni dan m

• Slovak: pracovný deň m, robotný deň m
• Slovene: delovni dan m
• Spanish: día hábil m, día laborable m, día de diario m
• Swedish: arbetsdag (sv) c, vardag (sv) c
• Tajik: рӯзи корӣ (rüz-i kori)
• Tatar: эш көне (eş köne)
• Thai: วันทำงาน (wan-tam-ngaan)
• Turkish: iş günü (tr)
• Turkmen: iş güni
• Ukrainian: робо́чий день m (robóčyj denʹ)
• Urdu: یَومِ کار m (yaum-i kār), کام کا دِن m (kām kā din)
• Uyghur: ئىش كۈنى (ish küni)
• Uzbek: ish kuni
• Vietnamese: ngày công (vi), ngày làm việc
• Yiddish: אַרבעטסטאָג m (arbetstog)

part of a day in which work is done

• Bulgarian: рабо́тен ден m (rabóten den)
• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: työpäivä (fi)
• French: journée de travail (fr) f
• Hungarian: munkaidő (hu)
• Macedonian: работно време n (rabotno vreme)
• Polish: roboczodniówka f
• Portuguese: dia de trabalho m, jornada (pt) f
• Spanish: jornada (es) f
• Ukrainian: робо́чий день m (robóčyj denʹ)