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Princeton's WordNet

  1. workday, working day, work daynoun

    a day on which work is done

  2. workday, working daynoun

    the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage

    "they work an 8-hour day"

Wiktionary

  1. working daynoun

    Those days of a week on which work is done. The five working days 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).

  2. working daynoun

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

Wikipedia

  1. working day

    A business day means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, or any day which is a legal holiday or any day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.The definition of a business day varies by region. It depends on the local workweek which is dictated by local customs, religions, and business operations. For example, in the United States and much of the Western world, they are typically Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. By contrast, for many eastern countries such as Japan, the normal business day is Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.The length of a business day varies by era, by region, by industry, and by company. Prevalent norms have included the 8-hour day and the 10-hour day, but various lengths, from 4 to 16 hours, have been normal in certain times and places. Business days are commonly used by couriers when determining the arrival date of a package. If a courier ships a parcel on a Thursday that will be delivered in "two business days", it will arrive on the following Monday if neither Friday nor Monday are holidays. In finance, how business days are defined are called business day conventions and determine how payments are settled on contracts such as interest rate swaps.

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  1. working day

    A working day is a day on which work is typically done, usually referring to a day within the standard Monday to Friday, five-day work week where regular paid jobs are performed. It excludes the weekend and public holidays. The specific hours can vary depending on the organization, profession, or country but commonly are around 8 hours per day. However, the definition can slightly vary depending on cultural, legal and business context.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of working day in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of working day in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of working day in a Sentence

  1. Photographer Guillaume Binet:

    The doctors are not sleeping. They are working day and night and are certainly short on surgeons and nurses, at the time( of my visit), the hospital was on the front line -- you could be shot through the window, you can hear the tanks firing and the bullets zinging by.

  2. Brad Morris:

    John Deere is committed to a favorable outcome for our employees, our communities and everyone involved, we are determined to reach an agreement with the UAW that would put every employee in a better economic position and continue to make them the highest paid employees in the agriculture and construction industries. We will keep working day and night to understand our employees' priorities and resolve this strike.

  3. Adrian Campos:

    Joining the Formula One World Championship in 2021 shall be a long-term project, we are aware of the big challenges ahead of us, but we have a team of experts working day and night and the financial solidity required by the FIA to make this project a success.

  4. Piraeus Bank Bulgaria:

    For us, this Monday is a normal working day.

  5. Ashish Jha:

    We have 1.3 million doses of TPOXX -- the treatment for smallpox, it can also be used for monkeypox -- in our stockpile. And we are working day and night to make access to that treatment easier for providers around the country.


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