- 1每週工時；（相對於週末的）工作日
Your workweek is the amount of time you spend working in one week — usually counted in hours, and usually the normal, expected amount rather than one strange busy week. "A 40-hour workweek" means you work 40 hours from Monday to Friday. The word can also mean the days of the week when people work, as opposed to the weekend: "The workweek starts on Monday." So sometimes it counts hours, sometimes it counts days, and you tell which one from the sentence.
This is the American spelling, written as one word. British writers usually say *working week*, two words. You will meet this word most in news, business writing, and talk about jobs and workers' rights — a government wants to " the workweek", a company tries "a four-day workweek". It is not a word people use much when chatting; in normal talk they just say "I work forty hours a week".
One small thing worth noticing: the workweek is what you are *supposed* to work. If you stay late every night, people would say your workweek is 40 hours but you actually work 55. The word points at the official shape of the job, not always at the truth of it.
組成work + week — literally "the week of work", the working part of a week. American English likes to close up compounds like this into one word (weekend, workplace, workday); British English often keeps them apart.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
workweeknoun
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The range of days of the week that are normally worked.
- 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.
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