WORKWEEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workweek mean? 

• WORKWEEK (noun)
  The noun WORKWEEK has 1 sense:

1. hours or days of work in a calendar week

  Familiarity information: WORKWEEK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKWEEK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hours or days of work in a calendar week

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

week; workweek

Context example:

they worked a 40-hour week

Hypernyms ("workweek" is a kind of...):

work time (a time period when you are required to work)

Holonyms ("workweek" is a part of...):

calendar week; week (a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday)

 Context examples 

Even working as few as 41 hours a week, only an hour longer than the typical workweek, raised the risk of high blood pressure.

(High Blood Pressure Liked to Long Hours on Job, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)