business day
noun
: a day when most businesses are open : a weekday that is not a holiday
Please allow 14 business days for delivery.
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By contrast, many storefront and online payday lenders still fund the next business day via ACH (or same-day to debit in some cases), meaning access can vary from minutes to a day or more.
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Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Instead, the clearinghouse keeps track of the stock held by different brokerages on behalf of their customers and settles up transactions between those brokerages the next business day.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
If the first falls on either a weekend or a holiday, however, SSI payments are issued on the last business day of the previous month.
—Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 18 Nov. 2025
Competing real estate firm Compass filed a lawsuit against Zillow challenging its listing standards, which require sellers to list homes on Zillow within one business day of them appearing on the industry’s MLS system — or risk not being able to list it at all on Zillow.
—Carlos Waters, CNBC, 17 Nov. 2025
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Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Instead, the clearinghouse keeps track of the stock held by different brokerages on behalf of their customers and settles up transactions between those brokerages the next business day.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
If the first falls on either a weekend or a holiday, however, SSI payments are issued on the last business day of the previous month.
—Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 18 Nov. 2025
Competing real estate firm Compass filed a lawsuit against Zillow challenging its listing standards, which require sellers to list homes on Zillow within one business day of them appearing on the industry’s MLS system — or risk not being able to list it at all on Zillow.
—Carlos Waters, CNBC, 17 Nov. 2025
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“Business day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/business%20day. Accessed 6 Dec. 2025.
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