workweek
Sostantivo
The range of days of the week that are normally worked.
Uso- uso statunitense
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- Esempi
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Altri esempi (2)
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.”
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.
Sostantivo
hours or days of work in a calendar week
- Sinonimi
- Termini più generali
- Esempi
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they worked a 40-hour week
Forme della parola
workweeks