awayday

English

Alternative forms

• away day

Etymology

Originally a railway day-return ticket at a special price.

Noun

awayday (plural awaydays)

1. (British) A business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.
   • 2022 November 27, Claire Armitstead, “Liz Kingsman: ‘Who is this woman who feels she can go on stage and make people laugh?’”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Unlike one location of the 2019 comedy series Down from London, in which Kingsman and Graham Dickson starred as an odd couple trying to fix their relationship with awaydays, her home is not by the sea.

Translations

meeting away from the office

• Dutch: heidag (nl) c
• Finnish: virkistyspäivä, tykypäivä, suunnittelukokous, seminaari (fi) (no exact equivalent)