day-to-day
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
day-to-day (not comparable)
- Ordinary or mundane.
- One has to deal with the day-to-day chores.
- Happening every day.
- I would like to know about the day-to-day workings of the business.
- 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Liverpool Street layout remodelled”, in Modern Railways, page 222:
- High manganese material is three times more costly, but its expectation of life is five years; in addition, it offers a big saving in day-to-day maintenance.
- 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:
- Most of those working so hard to find a peace formula carried no major day-to-day responsibilities in Vietnam or Southeast Asia. This lack enabled them to take a detached, above-the-battle stance.
- 2019 December 18, Andrew Roden, “Rail fares to rise by an average of 2.7% in January”, in Rail, page 16:
- "After a year of patchy performance, passengers just want a consistent day-to-day service they can rely on and a better chance of getting a seat."
- (US, sports) Subject to daily redetermination.
- He has an ankle sprain and his status is day-to-day.
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Translations[edit]
ordinary or mundane
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happening every day
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Adverb[edit]
day-to-day (comparative more day-to-day, superlative most day-to-day)
- On a daily basis.
- The cost of gasoline is determined day-to-day.
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Noun[edit]
day-to-day (uncountable)
- Ordinary, monotonous routine; that which is usual or mundane.
- People come here to escape the day-to-day.
Translations[edit]
ordinary, monotonous routine; that which is usual or mundane
References[edit]
- “day-to-day”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.