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jobweek

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English

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Etymology

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From job +‎ week.

Noun

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jobweek (plural jobweeks)

  1. The range of days of the week during which one is normally at work.
    • 1974, Carroll J. Bourg, “Work and/or Job in Advanced Industrialized Societies”, in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 57(1): 113-225:
      As the joblife becomes a smaller percentage of one's life cycle, as the jobyear, the jobweek, maybe even the jobday become smaller, ...
  2. A measure of time required to do a particular job or set of tasks.
    • 1990, Robert L. Kimmons, Project Management Basics: A Step by Step Approach, CRC Press, page 47:
      For very large, lengthy projects, jobweeks may be used.

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