The phrase "a workaday one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is ordinary, routine, or typical in nature.
Example: "While the project was interesting, the daily tasks felt like a workaday one, lacking excitement or novelty."
Alternatives: "an everyday one" or "a mundane one".
The company is housed in a workaday, one-story 30,000-square-foot concrete-block facility a few miles from the sea in Essex, Massachusetts.
On the one hand, there was an urge to document a hidden universe of form and feeling; on the other, a fixation on a small and exquisite world that seemed blissfully different from the workaday one in which Bentley, in Vermont, like Cornell, in Queens, found himself.
Marino Pazzini, a partner of the Ranieris' who runs the well-stocked Wine Emporium next door, has been given a free hand with the list, and his offerings include world champion bottles with three-digit prices alongside such workaday ones as the simple, terrific merlot-cabernet from CK Mondavi, which happened to be the $5-a-glass house wine one night.
Although the book contains its share of much rougher stories, it is these seemingly workaday ones that hit hardest.
Amazingly, the costumes — even the workaday ones, for the Gladneys — don't betray the quick-change mechanics that have been built into them, a credit to the designer, Patricia E. Doherty.
But as retail executives place orders for the crucial end-of-year rush, they are anxiously debating how strong and lasting the consumer's revival will be.In the first quarter both fancier retailers such as Gap, Macy's and Saks and workaday ones like Target, Wal-Mart and Home Depot all announced improved results.
I duck into a workaday cafe on a side street and fortify myself with toast and coffee for $6.
In guiding visitors around the new ship, Mr. Snediker stresses that Amistad was a workaday cargo schooner, not one of the infamous Middle Passage slave ships that carried captives from Africa to the Americas.
It might appear that Mr. Klein broke no new ground, that he just rearranged the peas on his plate and said, "Bon appétit!" Yet, like Mr. Rucci, his best details were hidden, meant for the connoisseurs who know the difference between a workaday black suede skirt and one that is made entirely of patches of suede.
In cross-examination, Mr. Hacker described the shredding of documents -- the central act in the criminal case -- as a workaday event in the accounting industry, one that is necessary to keep auditors from being buried in paperwork.
One even proposes, in a workaday monotone, that the first hundred people in any Idaho phonebook could do just as well as the legislators at making decisions in the capital.
