seven-day week
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week
noun[C]
uk/wiːk/us/wiːk/
a period of seven days, especially either from Monday to Sunday or from Sunday ...
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(Definition ofweekfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Wool-combing and top-making are doing well, admittedly with a slimmed-down work force, but some companies are on aseven-dayweek.
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But the port users must keep clearing their goods all the time through aseven-dayweek.
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The third is to protect vulnerable smaller retailers from pressure to work aseven-dayweek.
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It involves a great deal of trouble, aseven-dayweekand a large amount of labour trouble.
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The operatives voluntarily decided to work aseven-dayweekwhen everyone else in the country was discussing a five-day week.
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I know from experience that it is having the utmost difficulty in getting men to work aseven-dayweekon milk distribution.
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He was quite right to worry about safeguards regarding theseven-dayweek.
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Those who work in the caring or emergency services have always accepted that they should be prepared to work, in a sense, aseven-dayweek.
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She has aseven-dayweekof unlimited hours.
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Nobody is expected to work aseven-dayweek, except perhaps some people concerned with the wellbeing of animals.
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During the harvest, we work aseven-dayweekand for very long hours.
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Key units, including radar stations, are established to work aseven-dayweek.
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I am given to understand that some members of the deer commission work aseven-dayweek.
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When we talk about incomes, it is for aseven-dayweek.
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We have now aseven-dayweek; and, if you look into other cultures, you find this magical number seven always occurring.
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Simply because people are unwilling to work aseven-dayweek.
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A farmer with livestock has aseven-dayweek.
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Amazingly, 8,000 workers took advantage of that, because they had previously been working aseven-dayweekby compulsion.
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They work a very long day, and aseven-dayweek.
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To move from a six-day to aseven-dayweekand to longer hours meant changing the patterns of employment and it also meant increasing costs.
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