cristina friz
Senior Member
español, valdivia, Chile
working days
caballoschica
Senior Member
english/usa
Either. I've heard both business days and working days. They mean the same thing.
papangu
Member
Portuguese - Brazil
They're both good then?
caballoschica
Senior Member
english/usa
They're both good then?
Absolutely.
Mailing companies use one or the other, but I know I've heard both.
cristina friz
Senior Member
español, valdivia, Chile
well, I have also heard business day but I think working day is more used. It is only my opinion, since I use working days....
Both are correct.
Hello everybody!
Look, if I want to say something like, "the delivery will be done within 5 ....days", meaning that weekends or holidays don't count, should I use "working days" or "business days"? Or none of these?
Business days is more commonly used. I work for one of the worlds largest electronics company's US division, and this is what we use in all documentation and correspondence. Good luck!
The Google n-gram viewer*, shows that "working days" is three times more popular than "business days".
Strictly, business days are the days upon which the business is open (they may close at weekends and on Wednesdays)
Working days are considered Monday to Friday less any national holidays.
*http://books.google.com/ngrams/grap...start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Strictly, business days are the days upon which the business is open (they may close at weekends and on Wednesdays)
Working days are considered Monday to Friday less any national holidays.
Hmmm... In US English, for the purposes of scheduling, a business day is Monday through Friday. If you ask for something on Friday and you won't get it until Tuesday, they say it will be two business days even if they are open on Saturday or Sunday.
"Working day" has other meanings (like "How long is your working day? Eight hours" which is part of the reason why it has more uses.)
cycloneviv
Senior Member
English - Australia
Business is what fits here.
Depending on where you are located within the English-speaking word, this is not true. 
We would generally use "working days" in Australia. Business days would be understood, but is nowhere near as widely-used.
Parla
Member Emeritus
English - US
"Business days" is what is consistently used by companies that have shipped goods to me, and it means Monday through Friday; if I place an order on a Wednesday, for example, and am told that I will receive my shipment within five business days, I'll expect it to arrive no later than the following Wednesday. Similarly, a bank may state that there will be a hold of X business days on a particular deposit, meaning it will be that long before checks written on that money will be honored; again, only the days Monday through Friday are counted (even though most banks, at least here, are open on Saturday).
