less business days vs fewer business days

Both 'less business days' and 'fewer business days' are commonly used, but they have slightly different meanings. 'Less business days' is used when referring to a smaller amount of time in a general sense, while 'fewer business days' is used when referring to a smaller number of individual days. The choice between them depends on whether you are talking about time as a whole or individual units of time.

Last updated: March 31, 2024 • 1507 views

less business days

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to a smaller amount of time in a general sense.

This phrase is used when talking about a reduced amount of time in a general way, without specifying individual days.

Examples:

We have less business days this month due to the holidays.
The project will take less business days to complete than we initially thought.

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Intraday credit: the credit extended and reimbursed within a period of less than one business day.
Intraday credit: credit extended for a period of less than one business day.
Intraday credit: credit extended for a period of less than one business day.
Intraday credit: credit extended for a period of less than one business day.
Total value of credit extended by the central bank to credit institutions and reimbursed within a period of less than one business day.
for netting sets containing one or more trades involving either illiquid collateral, or an OTC derivative that cannot be easily replaced, the margin period of risk shall not be less than 20 business days.
intraday credit means credit extended for a period of less than one business day,
Intraday borrowing in euro from the central bank (average for last reserve maintenance period) - total value of credit extended by the central bank to credit institutions and reimbursed within a period of less than one business day.
for all netting sets where the number of trades exceeds 5000 at any point during a quarter, the margin period of risk for the following quarter shall not be less than 20 business days.
confirmation of whether it has executed an average of less than one trade per business day in the previous year in that class of financial instruments.
The settlement date refers to Eurosystem business days.
It was only five business days.
It will take us a minimum of eight business days to process your payment.
"Immediately" means six business days later.
Auto-collateralisation may only be provided on business days.
Such notifications shall be made promptly and no later than three business days after the date of the transaction.
Operating days The ECB may decide to conduct fine-tuning bilateral operations on any Eurosystem business day.
Such decision shall become effective at the earliest from the following Eurosystem business day.
In other cases at least five business days will be needed.
This is the start of my business day.

Alternatives:

a reduced number of business days
a smaller amount of business days
a decreased number of business days
a diminished amount of business days
a lower count of business days

fewer business days

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to a smaller number of individual days.

This phrase is used when talking about a reduced number of individual business days, emphasizing the count of days.

Examples:

We have fewer business days to complete the project than we anticipated.
There are fewer business days in February compared to March.

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The settlement date refers to Eurosystem business days.
It was only five business days.
It will take us a minimum of eight business days to process your payment.
"Immediately" means six business days later.
Auto-collateralisation may only be provided on business days.
Such notifications shall be made promptly and no later than three business days after the date of the transaction.
Operating days The ECB may decide to conduct fine-tuning bilateral operations on any Eurosystem business day.
Such decision shall become effective at the earliest from the following Eurosystem business day.
In other cases at least five business days will be needed.
This is the start of my business day.
five business days for OTC derivatives;
the actual number of business days between revaluations;
20 business days for secured lending transactions;
10 business days for all other netting sets.
You will have a check by the end of business day.
Intraday credit: the credit extended and reimbursed within a period of less than one business day.
When calculating risk-weighted exposure amounts using internal models, institutions shall use the previous business day's model output.
Access to intraday credit may only be granted on business days.
We'll notify you within seven to 10 business days.
It was only five business days.

Alternatives:

a reduced number of business days
a smaller count of business days
a decreased amount of business days
a diminished count of business days
a lower amount of business days

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