Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

awayday

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: away-day
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.

British usage

Example Sentences

"Unlike one location of the 2019 comedy series Down from London, in which Kingsman and Graham Dickson starred as an odd couple trying to fix their relationship with awaydays, her home is not by the sea."

Etymology

Originally a railway day-return ticket at a special price.

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

awaydays (plural) away day (alternative)

Questions

What does awayday mean?: A business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.
Where does awayday come from?: Originally a railway day-return ticket at a special price.

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