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working day

working day noun: any of those days of a week on which work is done, officially Monday to Friday in many countries (even though many people work on weekends).

Noun

working day (plural working days)

  1. (UK, mainly) Any of those days of a week on which work is done, officially Monday to Friday in many countries (even though many people work on weekends).
    • It will take five working days to process your application.
  2. (UK, mainly) The part of a day in which work is done; the number of hours one must work per day for a specified wage.
    • Your working day is 8 hours.
    • That's all they really want / Is some fun / When the working day is done / Oh, girls, they wanna have fun / Oh, girls just wanna have...1979, Robert Hazard, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, in She's So Unusual, performed by Cyndi Lauper, published 1983

working day meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

working day in Hindi

day of a week in which work is done
कार्यदिवस kāryadivas, कार्य दिवस kārya divas, काम का दिन kām kā din

working day in Tamil

அலுவல் நாள், வேலை நாள்

working day in Urdu

day of a week in which work is done
یَومِ کار yaum-i kār, کام کا دِن kām kā din

working day in Bengali

day of a week in which work is done
কর্মদিবস kormodiboś
More languagesFewer languages
working day in Kannada
ಕೆಲಸದ ದಿನ
working day in Arabic
يَوْم عَمَل yawm ʕamal, يَوْم الْعَمَل yawm al-ʕamal
working day in Malay
hari kerja, hari bekerja
working day in Indonesian
hari kerja
working day in Thai
วันทำงาน wan-tam-ngaan
working day in Vietnamese
ngày công, ngày làm việc

Synonyms of working day

All synonyms of working day

Forms of working day

pluralworking days

Questions about working day

What does working day mean?
Working day means any of those days of a week on which work is done, officially Monday to Friday in many countries (even though many people work on weekends).
What is working day in Hindi?
Working day in Hindi is कार्यदिवस (kāryadivas), कार्य दिवस (kārya divas), काम का दिन (kām kā din). See Working day meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is working day?
Working day is a noun.
What is the plural of working day?
The plural of working day is working days.

Words near working day in the dictionary

  1. working capital
  2. working capital requirement
  3. working class
  4. working classes
  5. working conditions
  6. working day
  7. working days
  8. working definition
  9. working definitions
  10. working directories
  11. working directory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: working day (page history and authors); working day (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); working day (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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