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awayday

awayday noun: a business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.

Noun

awayday (plural awaydays)

  1. (UK) A business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.
    • Unlike one location of the 2019 comedy series Down from London, in which Kingsman and Graham Dickson starred as an odd couple trying to fix their relationship with awaydays, her home is not by the sea.2022 November 27, Claire Armitstead, “Liz Kingsman: ‘Who is this woman who feels she can go on stage and make people laugh?’”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Forms of awayday

pluralawaydays
alternative formaway day

Origin of awayday

Originally a railway day-return ticket at a special price.

Questions about awayday

What does awayday mean?
Awayday means a business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.
What part of speech is awayday?
Awayday is a noun.
What is the plural of awayday?
The plural of awayday is awaydays.

Words near awayday in the dictionary

  1. away-day girl
  2. away-day girls
  3. away-going
  4. away-to-me
  5. Awayan
  6. awayday
  7. awaydays
  8. awaye
  9. awayed
  10. awaying
  11. awayness

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