workweek
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English
Etymology
Noun
workweek (plural workweeks)
- (US) The range of days of the week that are normally worked.
- Synonyms: jobweek, working week
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- Mrs. Lienemann, the French Housing Minister, sees socialist and ecological forces proposing what she calls “a new culture”—perhaps named “Ecosocialism”—that might, she believes, work for innovations like a 32-hour workweek, more democracy at the workplace, and “a greater stress on quality than quantity in everyday life.”]
- 2009 July 12, Christopher Caldwell, “Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?”, in The New York Times:
- That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.
Translations
range of days of the week
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