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WORKADAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workaday mean? 

WORKADAY (adjective)
  The adjective WORKADAY has 1 sense:

1. found in the ordinary course of eventsplay

  Familiarity information: WORKADAY used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WORKADAY (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Found in the ordinary course of events

Synonyms:

everyday; mundane; quotidian; routine; unremarkable; workaday

Context example:

there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

Similar:

ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)


 Context examples 


Venus will be conjunct Jupiter in your workaday sector, suggesting you are about to do something that will attract more income and better work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort it is.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Venus and Jupiter will both be at the late 28 degrees of Sagittarius in your workaday project sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

How very, very happy they must be! and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the workaday world again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Uranus, the planet of surprise, based in your tenth house of honors, awards, and achievement, will contact Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, in your workaday projects sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On this same day, the Sun will work with creative Neptune from your workaday sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In your case, Mars is in Scorpio, your workaday sixth house of current assignments, and Pluto is in your eighth house of other people’s money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Uranus, the planet of surprise, will send an out-of-the-blue beam to Jupiter, which happens to rule your workaday sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mercury will retrograde in your workaday sector (sixth house), so you will need to be vigilant over details of projects, for that is where you are most likely to see errors and do-overs crop up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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