working day
noun1
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:
- Synonyms
- workday, 9 to 5, nine to five, weekday, business day