Saturday

plural Saturdays

1. The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.

   The Beijing-based firm — one of four funds created by the Chinese government in 1999 to process the bad loans of state-owned banks — announced Saturday that it would send a group of 50 experts to the province to help it “prevent and defuse risks” and “bail out” the real estate industry.

   2023 April 27, Laura He, “China may have to bail out one of its poorest provinces”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 28 May 2023

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   Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.

   2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025

   Synonyms: Seventh Day, Sat, Sat.

1. CanadaUSinformalnot comparableOn Saturday.

present singular third person Saturdays · participle present Saturdaying · participle past Saturdayed · past Saturdayed

1. uncommoncreativeTo spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).

   Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.

   1913, Bell Telephone News, volume 3, page 5