"jobday" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: jobdays [plural], job day [alternative]
Etymology: From job and day. Head templates: {{en-noun}} jobday (plural jobdays)
  1. A day of the week, or regular portion of the day (typically 8 hours), during which one is on the job/at work
    Sense id: en-jobday-en-noun-ss-E9vSp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9
  2. A measure of time required to do a particular job or set of tasks Categories (topical): Calendar
    Sense id: en-jobday-en-noun-ftQ4Srhu Disambiguation of Calendar: 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: workday [US, mainly], working day [UK, mainly]

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From job and day.",
  "forms": [
    {
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        "plural"
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    },
    {
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          "ref": "1974, Carroll J. Bourg, “Work and/or Job in Advanced Industrialized Societies”, in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 57(1): 113-225:",
          "text": "As the joblife becomes a smaller percentage of one's life cycle, as the jobyear, the jobweek, maybe even the jobday become smaller, ...",
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "1982, Jeffrey A. Alexander, Nursing Unit Organization: Its Effects on Staff Professionalism, UMI Research Press, published 1982, page 49:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Robert L. Kimmons, Project Management Basics: A Step by Step Approach, CRC Press, page 47:",
          "text": "Jobdays are used in other projects that call for closer monitoring.",
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        "UK",
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
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    {
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      ],
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        [
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          "text": "Jobdays are used in other projects that call for closer monitoring.",
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}

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