weekday
Noun
Meaning
any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)
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The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
The marchers claimed to express their extreme disapproval that the Prime Minister is an Indo-Fijian ... one may well ask how they reconcile their repugnant racist sentiment on the weekday with their purported devotion to the Biblical precept of the brotherhood of Man on Sunday.
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.