单词 | workweek |
释义 | > as lemmasworkweek workweek n. chiefly North American (a) the total number of hours or days worked in a week; (b) the part of the week during which one typically works, as distinguished from the weekend; cf. working week n. at working n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > working week workweek1892 five-day week1926 1892 Irish Times 30 Apr. 4/8 A forty-eight hours work week. 1912 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 39 212 An approximate ten hour work-day and sixty hour work-week were secured for women and children. 1987 Flying May 48/1 PAL..makes 14 round trips a day, during the workweek, to Newark. 2013 F. Pritchard Gaining Ground iii. 34 I had worn myself down with an endless string of seven-day workweeks. < as lemmas |
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