workday

• work day

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.

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workday (plural workdays)

1. (chiefly US) Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek.

   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.

• 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

• beginning of day, end of day, EOD, close of business, COB, quitting time

• worknight

• teacher workday

• 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)

workday (comparative more workday, superlative most workday)

1. Alternative form of workaday.

• workaday

• day work, day-work, daywork