Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or suited for working days.
- adjective Ordinary or commonplace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A working-day.
- Working-day; relating to workdays; plodding; toiling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
workyday .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
suitable foreveryday use - adjective
mundane orcommonplace
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective found in the ordinary course of events
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her mostly flat set, with its isolated boxy units, is supposed to suggest jewel boxes but more closely recalls workaday storage units.
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Her mostly flat set, with its isolated boxy units, is supposed to suggest jewel boxes but more closely recalls workaday storage units.
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Her mostly flat set, with its isolated boxy units, is supposed to suggest jewel boxes but more closely recalls workaday storage units.
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Reliable as a fine Swiss watch, the St. Gallen, Switzerland-based house can always be counted on to deliver the kind of workaday staples professional women crave, and Sunday's clean-lined collection was no exception.
Luxury Is A La Mode At Celine, Galliano, Givenchy & Akris (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010
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Reliable as a fine Swiss watch, the St. Gallen, Switzerland-based house can always be counted on to deliver the kind of workaday staples professional women crave, and Sunday's clean-lined collection was no exception.
Luxury Is A La Mode At Celine, Galliano, Givenchy & Akris (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010
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Whilst there is no such thing as routine access to space Soyuz launches have a "workaday" feel to them rather than the high drama of a shuttle launch followed by a "workaday" inspection of the TPS!
ISS About to Have a Crew of Six With Soyuz-TMA 15 Launch - NASA Watch 2009
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Reliable as a fine Swiss watch, the St. Gallen, Switzerland-based house can always be counted on to deliver the kind of workaday staples professional women crave, and Sunday's clean-lined collection was no exception.
Luxury Is A La Mode At Celine, Galliano, Givenchy & Akris (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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OK, after all that, all I have left is two videos, the first of which is just the perfect cure for any kind of workaday blues.
Zombie attack? They're on it ... plus Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies Reel Fanatic 2009
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OK, after all that, all I have left is two videos, the first of which is just the perfect cure for any kind of workaday blues.
Archive 2009-08-01 Reel Fanatic 2009
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According to his sociology of the individual as political fetish, the modern state routinizes gender inequalities through a "workaday" bureaucracy located in the mundane structural demands of economic activity; in the civic arena created by official bureaucracy, patriarchal social patterns formalize commercial relations and enforce the domination of a perceived "natural leader" in the home, the marketplace, and the sphere of civic activity.
Notes on 'Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott' 2006
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