working day

Much of the working day is spent papering over a job half done from the day before.

God knows, there is enough to sigh for in this working-day world, is there not?

It was considered a triumph when the working-day was reduced to thirteen hours.

The convention centered on the demand to reduce the working day to eight hours.

In the main the leaders of the Federation placed slight reliance upon efforts to shorten the working day through legislation.

The working-day of the steam-engine, on the other hand, is twenty-four hours in length.