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jobweek

jobweek noun: the range of days of the week during which one is normally at work.

Noun

jobweek (plural jobweeks)

  1. The range of days of the week during which one is normally at work.
    • As the joblife becomes a smaller percentage of one's life cycle, as the jobyear, the jobweek, maybe even the jobday become smaller, ...1974, Carroll J. Bourg, “Work and/or Job in Advanced Industrialized Societies”, in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 57(1): 113-225
  2. A measure of time required to do a particular job or set of tasks.
    • For very large, lengthy projects, jobweeks may be used.1990, Robert L. Kimmons, Project Management Basics: A Step by Step Approach, CRC Press, page 47

Synonyms of jobweek

Forms of jobweek

pluraljobweeks

Origin of jobweek

From job + week.

Questions about jobweek

What does jobweek mean?
Jobweek means the range of days of the week during which one is normally at work.
What part of speech is jobweek?
Jobweek is a noun.
What is the plural of jobweek?
The plural of jobweek is jobweeks.

Words near jobweek in the dictionary

  1. Jobsts
  2. jobsworth
  3. jobsworths
  4. Joburg
  5. Joburger
  6. jobweek
  7. jobweeks
  8. Joby
  9. Jocasta
  10. Jocasta complex
  11. Jocasta complexes

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