working day

working day

English

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 (lyrics and music), “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, in She's So Unusual‎, published 1983, performed by Cyndi Lauper:

     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

Azerbaijani: iş günü Catalan: dia feiner m, dia laborable m Chinese: Mandarin: 工作日 (zh) (gōngzuòrì) Czech: pracovní den (cs) m Danish: arbejdsdag (da) c Dutch: werkdag (nl) Esperanto: labortago Finnish: työpäivä (fi) French: jour ouvré (fr) m, jour ouvrable (fr) m Galician: día solto m German: Arbeitstag (de) m, Werktag (de) m Greek: καθημερινή (el) (kathimeriní), εργάσιμη (el) (ergásimi) Hungarian: munkanap (hu) Icelandic: virkur dagur Macedonian: ра́ботен ден m (ráboten den), делник m (delnik) Norwegian: Bokmål: hverdag (no) m Polish: dzień roboczy m Portuguese: dia útil (pt) m Romanian: zi lucrătoare f, zi de muncă (ro) f Russian: рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ) Spanish: día hábil m, día laborable m Turkish: iş günü (tr) Ukrainian: робо́чий день m (robóčyj denʹ) Vietnamese: ngày công (vi), ngày làm việc

part of a day in which work is done

Chinese: Mandarin: 工作時間, 工作时间 (gōngzuò shíjiān) Finnish: työpäivä (fi) French: journée de travail f Hungarian: munkaidő (hu) Macedonian: работно време n (rabotno vreme) Portuguese: dia de trabalho m, jornada (pt) f Spanish: jornada (es) f Ukrainian: робо́чий день m (robóčyj denʹ)