working day

English

Noun

working day (plural working days) (mainly UK)

1. Any of those days of a week on which work is done. The official working days in many countries are Monday to Friday (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.

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

• Azerbaijani: iş günü
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工作日 (zh) (gōngzuòrì)

• Czech: pracovní den (cs) n
• Danish: arbejdsdag (da) c
• Dutch: werkdag (nl)
• Esperanto: labortago
• Finnish: työpäivä (fi)
• French: jour ouvré (fr) m
• Galician: día solto m
• German: Arbeitstag (de) m, Werktag (de) m
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• Greek: καθημερινή (el) (kathimeriní), εργάσιμη (el) (ergásimi)
• Macedonian: ра́ботен ден m (ráboten den)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hverdag (no) m

• Polish: dzień roboczy m
• Portuguese: dia útil (pt) m
• Russian: рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ)
• Spanish: día hábil m, día laborable m, jornada (es) f
• Turkish: iş günü (tr)

part of a day in which work is done

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工时 (zh) (Gōngshí), 工作时间 (zh) (Gōngzuò shíjiān)

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• Finnish: työpäivä (fi)
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