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Meanings of workaday in English

Occurring or returning in the ordinary course of events.

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Usage of workaday in English
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There was no obvious connection, frisson and contest, just a workaday monologue.
The Guardian
2
Hurst was a workaday wing-half whom Greenwood almost transferred to Southend United.
The Guardian
3
We did not know they made such cigars in this workaday world.
Idle Ideas in 1905
4
Each habitant had a clumsy, wooden-wheeled cart or wagon for workaday use.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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But I've put it off now, and put on workaday clothes again.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
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Litvinenko, according to former colleagues and commanders, was a workaday spy.
The Guardian
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None of that features in the workaday world of small publishing in Ireland.
The Irish Times
8
No one can remember ever having seen signs of workaday life there before.
The new yorker
9
The Hebrew nation, developed through workaday righteousness, manifested wonderful power in sudden crises.
Understanding the Scriptures
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In the normal workaday world of the body, this is no big deal.
Prescription alternatives: hundreds of safe, natural, prescripti...
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There were turrets and towers and battlements frowning upon the peaceful, workaday lake.
Mr. Achilles
12
To select one workaday, lateral, do-a-job central midfielder seems sensible enough.
The Guardian
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The temptation is strong to say that workaday electricity is half an American.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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With such a workaday goal, how did you end up directing feature films?
Reuters
15
She is a workaday politician who, at 61, will not improve.
The Irish Times
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They wore commonplace, workaday garments, but carried weapons slung negligently over their shoulders.
The Pirates of Ersatz
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