Meanings
nounawayday (plural awaydays)
plural awaydays · alternative away day
- UKA business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.
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.
2022 November 27, Claire Armitstead, “Liz Kingsman: ‘Who is this woman who feels she can go on stage and make people laugh?’”, in The Observer, →ISSN
Origin
Originally a railway day-return ticket at a special price.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 自強活動 /自强活动
- 自強活動 /自强活动meeting away from the office
Dutch heidag
- heidagmeeting away from the office
Finnish virkistyspäivä, tykypäivä
- virkistyspäivämeeting away from the office
- tykypäivämeeting away from the office
- suunnittelukokousmeeting away from the office
- seminaarimeeting away from the office
Cite this entry
APA
awayday. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awayday
MLA
“awayday.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awayday. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awayday,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awayday.
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