nine to five
Standard workday span
Nine to five describes the typical hours of a standard office job—roughly 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The phrase often carries connotations of routine, stability, or monotony: She left her nine-to-five to start a business.
As a noun, a nine-to-five is such a job: I'm tired of the nine-to-five grind.
Register work arrival
- timecardEmployee hours record
- timesheetRecord of hours worked
- shiftMovement or work period
- hoursSixty-minute spans
full-time · overtime · flextime · workweek · timetable · roster · attendance · breaks
Paid position of employment
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- professionTrained occupational field
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
workforce · salary · wage · paycheck · income · earnings · employee · employer
Day's early hours
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- trafficMovement along routes
- trainRail vehicle or instruct
- busLarge passenger vehicle
subway · carpool · highway · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday
Tiresome lack of change
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- tediumWearisome dullness
- repetitionAct of redoing
- regularityConsistent, predictable occurrence
predictability · sameness · habit · ritual · structure · stability · consistency · rut
punch-in
Register work arrival
hours · full-time · overtime · flextime · workweek · timetable · roster · attendance · breaks · lunchtime
job
Paid position of employment
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- professionTrained occupational field
livelihood · workforce · salary · wage · paycheck · income · earnings · employee · employer · hire
morning
Day's early hours
bus · subway · carpool · highway · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · weekday
monotony
Tiresome lack of change
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- tediumWearisome dullness
- repetitionAct of redoing
regularity · predictability · sameness · habit · ritual · structure · stability · consistency · rut · autopilot
desk
Furniture for writing
- cubiclePartitioned office workspace
- computerElectronic calculating device
- monitorDisplay or supervisor
keyboard · colleague · coworker · manager · boss · meeting · conference · breakroom · watercooler · memo
- employmentjob, jobs, career, careers, interview
- labor idiomsnose to the grindstone, burning the midnight oil, pull your weight, crunch time, work like a dog
- work hourswork hours, overtime, office hours, work schedules, shifts
- work idiomsburning out, rat race, climb the ladder, glass ceiling, golden handshake
- ninescat lives, nonagon, novena, Ennead, enneagram
- officedesk, desk job, desks, desk lamp, desk lamps
nine to fiveshift work
Labor in timed blocks
graveyard shift · flexible hours · night shift · flextime · 24/7
nine to fivefreelance
Self-employed project work
self-employed · independent contractor · own boss · side hustle · entrepreneur
nine to fiveworkaholic
Compulsive labor addict
hustle culture · grind · always on · burning the midnight oil · round the clock
nine, five, nines, fives, ninth, ninefold, fivefold, nineteen, fifteen