WORKDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workday mean? 

• WORKDAY (noun)
  The noun WORKDAY 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: WORKDAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKDAY (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 ("workday" is a kind of...):

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

Antonym:

rest day (a day set aside for rest)

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 ("workday" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "workday"):

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)