🇬🇧🇪🇸 workday - jornada laboral : English Lesson

Meaning of "workday" ("jornada laboral"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A workday is the time when grown‑ups are doing their jobs, like at an office, a store, a school, or at home on the computer. It can mean the whole day they are supposed to work, like Monday to Friday, or the number of hours they work, like 9 o’clock in the morning to 5 o’clock in the afternoon. After the workday is over, they are usually done with their job until the next day and can relax or play.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

In the middle of her workday, the scientist discovered that coffee is 80% of her superpowers.

During her workday, the vet got licked by dogs, stared at by cats, and judged silently by one very offended turtle.

The dog thinks my mom’s workday is eight hours of professional ball‑throwing that she is doing very badly.

By the end of her workday, the nurse’s feet retired, but the patients’ questions kept working overtime.

The astronaut’s workday is so weird that “going to the office” means floating upside down looking for a pen that keeps orbiting his head.

Anna wakes before dawn on a cold workday. She brews coffee, ties shoes, and steps out to a quiet street. The workday is long, with steady tasks and kind colleagues. At dusk the workday ends; Anna closes her door, breathes, and smiles—another full workday behind her, a workday she earned.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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