Definitions for weekends
ˈwikˌɛndzweek·ends

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1. weekends

   The weekdays and weekend are the complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively. The legal weekdays (British English), or workweek (American English), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to working. In most of the world, the workweek is from Monday to Friday and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday. A weekday or workday is any day of the working week. Other institutions often follow this pattern, such as places of education. The constituted weekend has varying definitions, based on determined calendar days, designated period of time, and/or regional definition of the working week (e.g., commencing after 5:00 p.m. on Friday and lasting until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday). Sometimes the term "weekend" is expanded to include the time after work hours on the last workday of the week (e.g., Friday evening is often referred to as the start of the weekend). In some Christian traditions, Sunday is the "day of rest and worship". The Jewish Shabbat or Biblical Sabbath lasts from sunset on Friday to the fall of full darkness on Saturday; as a result, the weekend in Israel is observed on Friday–Saturday. Some Muslim-majority countries historically instituted a Thursday–Friday weekend. Today, many of these countries, in the interests of furthering business trade and cooperation, have shifted to Friday–Saturday or Saturday–Sunday as in the case of Saudi Arabia and UAE.The Christian Sabbath is just one day each week, but the preceding day (the Jewish Sabbath) came to be taken as a holiday as well in the 20th century. This shift has been accompanied by a reduction in the total number of hours worked per week. The present-day concept of the "weekend" first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union was the first to successfully demand a five-day work week in 1929. Some countries have adopted a one-day weekend, i.e. either Sunday only (in seven countries), Friday only (in Djibouti, Iran and Somalia), or Saturday only (in Nepal). However, most countries have adopted a two-day weekend, whose days differ according to religious tradition, i.e. either Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday, or Friday and Sunday (in Brunei Darussalam, Aceh province (Indonesia) and state of Sarawak (Malaysia)), with the previous evening post-work often considered part of the weekend. Proposals continue to be put forward to reduce the number of days or hours worked per week, on the basis of predicted social and economic benefits.

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1. weekends

   Plural form of Weekend.

   The road will be closed for up to six weekends to allow for works on the new bypass roundabout.

   
   

   Submitted by acronimous on February 12, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weekends' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4103

How to pronounce weekends?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say weekends in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of weekends in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of weekends in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of weekends in a Sentence

1. Mukaibar Shah:

   Media suddenly starts reporting the upsurge of Covid cases only on weekends to make people fear, but during political rally it sees no problem and this only proves that Corona is a media created virus and all Covid cases is a fake news.

2. Chris Vangellow:

   We have some wonderful farmers within our school district who have expressed an interest in getting local farm fresh ingredients on students' plates, our staff, along with their spouses, and students recently volunteered their time and labor after school and on weekends to transform our courtyard into an outdoor learning space with raised growing beds, so classes can learn about growing food.

3. Burt Ward:

   On the weekends, we would play tennis together, we were going to public courts, and people would look over and say, ‘It’s Batman and Robin playing tennis!’.

4. Rebecca Regan:

   To the women of Starliner, my headscarf is red. My spacesuit is Boeing Defense blue. I'm on the verge of making human spaceflight history, just like you, i see how hard you're working on the final push before launch through weekends and holidays, and even at night. So please put on your own headscarf and let's show the world we can do it as you get me and my spacecraft ready for orbital flight.

5. Jack Evans:

   The system right now, in order to do the maintenance that needs to be done, cannot be done on three hours a night and on weekends. It just can’t, so in order to do repairs that are necessary, it may come to the point where we have to close the entire Blue Line for six months. People will go crazy. But there are going to be hard decisions that have to be made in order to get this fixed.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekends