Workweek

Quick meaning: Workweek is a noun meaning (US) The range of days of the week that are normally worked.

Meaning

(US) The range of days of the week that are normally worked.

Example Sentences

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.

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.”

Word Forms

• workweeks

Synonyms for workweek

Depending on context, synonyms include jobweek, week.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include week, workday, worktime, workload, payday, short time.

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