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I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
Deidre Hall

Meaning of "five-day week" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FIVE-DAY WEEK

five-day week  [ˈfaɪvˌdeɪ wiːk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIVE-DAY WEEK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Five-Day week is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FIVE-DAY WEEK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of five-day week in the English dictionary

The definition of five-day week in the dictionary is a system in which people work for five days in every seven.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FIVE-DAY WEEK


antique
ænˈtiːk
boutique
buːˈtiːk
chic
ʃiːk
clique
kliːk
creek
kriːk
Greek
ɡriːk
midweek
ˈmɪdˈwiːk
overweak
ˌəʊvəˈwiːk
peak
piːk
pipsqueak
ˈpɪpˌskwiːk
politique
ˌpɒlɪˈtiːk
seek
siːk
speak
spiːk
squeak
skwiːk
technique
tɛkˈniːk
tweak
twiːk
unique
juːˈniːk
weak
wiːk
week
wiːk
workweek
ˈwɜːkˌwiːk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIVE-DAY WEEK

five stones
Five Towns
five wits
five-a-day
five-a-side
five-a-side football
five-and-dime
five-by-five
five-door
five-eighth
five-faced bishop
five-finger
five-o´clock shadow
five-pin bowling
five-spot
five-star
five-star hotel
five-star restaurant
five-year

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIVE-DAY WEEK

Ancient Greek
bob-a-job week
cheek
Easter week
Ember week
freshers´ week
Great Week
hide-and-seek
Holy Week
keek
knock a person into the middle of next week
leek
meek
peek
rag week
reading week
sleek
turn the other cheek
working week
yesterday week

Synonyms and antonyms of five-day week in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «five-day week» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FIVE-DAY WEEK

Find out the translation of five-day week to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of five-day week from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «five-day week» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

五天工作周
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

semana de cinco días
570 millions of speakers

English

five-day week
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पांच दिन का सप्ताह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأسبوع لمدة خمسة أيام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пять дней в неделю
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cinco dias por semana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাঁচ দিন সপ্তাহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

semaine de cinq jours
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Minggu lima hari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fünf-Tage- Woche
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

週休2日制
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

5 일 주
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Minggu limang dina
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tuần năm ngày
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஐந்து நாள் வாரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाच दिवसीय आठवडा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Beş günlük hafta
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cinque giorni la settimana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pięć dni w tygodniu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

п´ять днів на тиждень
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cinci zile pe săptămână
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πενθήμερης εβδομάδας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vyf -dag- week
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

femdagarsvecka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fem - dagers uke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of five-day week

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FIVE-DAY WEEK»

The term «five-day week» is regularly used and occupies the 101.727 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FIVE-DAY WEEK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about five-day week

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QUOTES WITH «FIVE-DAY WEEK»

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1
Deidre Hall
I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIVE-DAY WEEK»

Discover the use of five-day week in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to five-day week and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
Pocket Bulletin 27 (October 1926), 2-12; "Labor Now Out for Five-Day Week," Literary Digest 91 (October 16, 1926), 1 1. See also W. H. Grimes, "Curse of Leisure," Atlantic Monthly 142 (April 1928), 355-60; Hunnicutt, "End of Shorter Hours," ...
David R. Roediger, Philip Sheldon Foner, 1989
2
Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work
5-6; "Five Days Shalt Thou Labor," Literary Digest 1o1 (May 18, 1929): 8; " Extension of Five- Day Week Movement in New York State," Monthly Labor Review 23 (October 1925): 747-748; "Is the Five-Day Week Practical? Pros and Cons," ...
Benjamin Hunnicutt, 1988
3
Procurement Systems: A Cross-Industry Project Management ...
For example, one respondent wrote, 'Have enjoyed the five day week – would prefer to put in extra hours during the week if it means having every weekend off.' Another commented, 'The five day week is fantastic. This is the way the whole ...
Derek Walker, Steve Rowlinson, 2007
4
Work Time: Conflict, Control, and Change
There was scattered achievement of the five-day week as early as 1908, but the goal remained a dream for the vast majority of American workers (Roediger and Foner 1989: 237). In the early twentieth century, followers of the Jewish faith ...
Cynthia L. Negrey, 2013
5
Economic Development of the British Coal Industry, 1800-1914
In Northumberland, where it is possible that alternate six- and five-day weeks had come a little earlier,122 the larger collieries, at least, went onto a five-day week in 1873, though there was a return to the eleven-day fortnight in 1877-8.
Brian R. Mitchell, 1984
6
Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
The computation of the increase in contract price claimed by the contractor is based on the actual wage of the predominant class of labor for a nine-hour day, five-day week — apparently obtaining prior to the 1947 agreement — and the actual ...
United States. General Accounting Office, 1948
7
Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of ...
Some time ago the writer took occasion in the pages of this journal to call attention to the financial losses that the workers of the Ford industry suffered through the inauguration of the widely heralded five-day week. Incidentally the soundness ...
Reinhold Niebuhr, D. B. Robertson, 1957
8
MANAGING WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN CONSTRUCTION
Shortly before data collection commenced in March 2005, the site moved to a five -day week, with working hours extended to 11.5 hour per day on week days. Weekend work was no longer required. By May 2005, the site was operating on ...
Helen Lingard, Valerie Francis, 2009
9
A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and ...
To be sure, in the heady days of January 1919, Scottish shop stewards and some miners advocated a thirty-hour week based on a six-hour day, five-day week. Others, who promoted the more modest forty-hour week, also supported a five- day ...
Gary S. Cross, 1989
10
The Mathematics of the Calendar
Perhaps the most interesting experiment in abolishing the sevenday week happened in the former Soviet Union. In 1929, the seven-day week was abolished and replaced with a five-day week. Instead of having two days off every seven days, ...
Marc Cohn, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIVE-DAY WEEK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term five-day week is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Work it out
Still, she wishes she could work a five-day week. “Natalia cried when I left her on Saturday mornings, and I felt so upset! Unfortunately, that's ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
New parking regulations are good for town, and motorists
... workers and business people who use their own transport to use the town car parks now that the rate is so reasonable for a five-day week. «The Corkman, Jul 15»
3
Mantle gets positive result from Norton scoping
The scoping study proposed a five-day week, day-shift-only operation, providing opportunity for increased weekly productivity with reduced ... «Creamer Media's Mining Weekly, Jul 15»
4
Greene goes back to five-day work week
... that called for a 20 percent reduction, asking other department heads to rotate staff to ensure that everyone was not working a five-day week. «Alton Telegraph, Jul 15»
5
HK directors active buying shares in own companies
... posting 110 transactions worth HK$159 million, against 27 firms with 108 deals worth HK$223 million in the previous five-day week. The bulk ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
6
UAE- Ramadan hours are not 'lost hours' Ministry of Labour warns …
"Our contract is for a five-day week and an extra day is against labour laws. Muslim workers are allowed to work as per labour law so they work ... «MENAFN.COM, Jul 15»
7
Traditional tales drive Bualadh Bos
A series of five-day week camps will operate out of Mary Immaculate College's handsome campus on a Monday to Friday basis, with the age ... «Limerick Post, Jul 15»
8
IIT-K eyes Aug 1 for first year classes
Special classes would be held to make up for the academic loss, he said and added, "Instead of a five-day week, classes will be held on six ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
9
Recorder's Office to return to 5-day week
“When the entire country and all the lending institutions out there are all used to working a five-day week, it's really hard to communicate our ... «Idaho Mountain Express and Guide, Jul 15»
10
Readers' Feedback (July 2015)
The jet turns a three-and-a-half-day week into a five-day week. Even the wealthy deserve their “cabins,” they just happen to go where you can ... «Aviation Week, Jun 15»

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