| 单词 | nine-hour day | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasnine-hour day   nine-hour day  n. 		(also nine-hours' day)	 now historical a working day of nine hours (cf. day n. 6). ΚΠ 1862    Leisure Hour 28 June 413/2  				They agreed upon an effort to shorten working time, and fixed upon a nine-hours' day. The phrase includes nine hours' actual work. 1897    Daily News 13 July 8/5  				A nine-hour day is not so long as to be exhausting to a man. 1989    S. Reynolds Britannica's Typesetters 		(BNC)	 41  				The question of reducing work hours was first raised..in the wake of the nine-hour day movement which had been launched in the building trades [in the 1860s]. < as lemmas  | 
	
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