WORKING DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does working day mean? 

• WORKING DAY (noun)
  The noun WORKING DAY has 2 senses:

1. a day on which work is done

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

  Familiarity information: WORKING DAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKING DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A day on which work is done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

work day; workday; working day

Hypernyms ("working day" is a kind of...):

weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

workday; working day

Context example:

they work an 8-hour day

Hypernyms ("working day" is a kind of...):

day (the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working))

Meronyms (parts of "working day"):

man hour; person hour (a time unit used in industry for measuring work)

duty period; shift; work shift (the time period during which you are at work)

 Context examples 

The sixth day of the week; the fifth working day.

(Friday, NCI Thesaurus)

Jonathan and I have been working day and night since Professor Van Helsing saw us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The second day of the week; the first working day.

(Monday, NCI Thesaurus)

A facility which primary purpose is to provide elective surgical care, in which the patient is admitted to and discharged from within the same working day and is not permitted to stay overnight, and which is not part of a hospital.

(Ambulatory Surgical Center, NCI Thesaurus)