four-day week
collocation in Englishmeaningsofweek
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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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Let us assume for a moment that we will in due course have afour-dayweek.
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About 10,000 are working a three-day week and just over 5,000 afour-dayweek.
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Indeed, we shall probably have afour-dayweek.
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In another part of the area, a doubling mill has gone on to afour-dayweek.
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Firms are stopping for a week here and there, or are on afour-dayweek.
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Other industries in my constituency are woring afour-dayweek.
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The car plant, which has been on afour-dayweek, went on to full time yesterday.
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The charirman is paid on the basis of afour-dayweek.
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We could do that by opting for afour-dayweekfor everyone.
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Consider the position of the £30-a-week worker, working afour-dayweek.
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There is no question of our having afour-dayweek.
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The pressings plant, which has been on afour-dayweek, went on to full time today.
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Indeed, the number of workers on afour-dayweekis increasing constantly.
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There is also evidence that thefour-dayweekis fast approaching.
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There are schools where afour-dayweekis more than an idle thought.
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The four-and-a-half-day working week is virtually with us and thefour-dayweekwill come.
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The trade union met the management, and they had to agree to afour-dayweek.
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The rest of the female labour has been put on afour-dayweek.
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Schools in some parts of the country are putting children on to afour-dayweek.
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In the main we work afour-dayweek.
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