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six-day week

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meanings of 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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Examples of six-day week


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It gives an average of 10 hours a day for a six-dayweek.
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He is paid on the basis of a six-dayweek.
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There have been no negotiations about the six-dayweek.
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The theatre managers have agreed to adequate safeguards for a six-dayweek.
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These have provided the public with more than adequate facilities to shop during a six-dayweek.
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A number of people work a six-dayweek.
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True, it was a six-dayweek, but we have advanced since then.
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Many men and women still work a six-dayweek.
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The proposition is a six-day working week, and not necessarily miners working a six-dayweek.
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When people consider the six-dayweek, they forget what has happened in the past.
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Does a six-dayweek underground give the maximum result?
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In some of the pits the conditions are intolerable for a six-dayweek.
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Then, at the beginning of the war, we put the miners on to a six-dayweek.
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On a six-dayweek they would be trading for 12 hours, so there are restrictions.
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During a recent six-dayweek, the average number of police officers principally employed on these duties at any one time was about 27, and of civilian staff 19.
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I have also put in a definite guarantee of a six-dayweek for people working in the theatres, which already operates with regard to the cinemas.
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The result of running the six-dayweek with the machinery that we had has been to impair the whole efficiency of the industry.
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From the point of view of efficiency and continuous production, the five-day week is better than the eleven-day fortnight, or a six-dayweek in which there is absenteeism.
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This is clearly an injustice for a five-day week is often equal in hours to a six-dayweek.
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Demand was rising, there was a fuel gap that had to be bridged by oil and by imported coal, and the miners were working a six-dayweek.
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