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.

Noun

workday (plural workdays)

1. (chiefly US) Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek. The five workdays in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends).

   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

• Bulgarian: делник (bg) m (delnik), работен ден (raboten den)
• 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
• Hungarian: munkanap (hu)
• Icelandic: virkur dagur
• Macedonian: делник m (delnik), работен ден m (raboten den)
• Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
• Plautdietsch: Woakjeldach 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
• Vietnamese: ngày công (vi), ngày làm việc

part of a day on which work is done

• Bulgarian: работно време (rabotno vreme)
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: arbejdsdag (da) c
• Finnish: työpäivä (fi)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} munkaidő (hu)
• Macedonian: работно време n (rabotno vreme)
• Romanian: timp zilnic de lucru m
• Russian: рабочее вре́мя n (rabočeje vrémja), рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ)

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