Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leisure day; an off day.
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Examples
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That didn't happen so the formation of the northern front continues to build on a sort of day - by-day basis.
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And the U.S. military is saying, well, that's not really important but what is important is that day - by-day, hour-by-hour, he's increasingly losing control of his forces.
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People on the street know very well that the presidency is a day - by-day fight for real people who face real problems.
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- Multitext circuits with which, by a motor-operated switch mechanism, the main text (by-day effect) is switched alternately with an additional text on a secondary level.
9. Commercial Lighting Fittings Frank Ponemunski 1991
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To these last, of course, Fontainebleau will seem but an extended tea-garden: a Rosherville on a by-day.
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“It was a by-day when I was here before,” he thought, “for it was nothing to this.”
Island Nights' Entertainments Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Ah, that was the time, Mr. Jorrocks! we lived like fighting-cocks then; you should have been among us, such a rollicking set of dogs! could hunt all day, race maggots and drink claret all night, and take an occasional by-day with the hounds on a Sunday.
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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Tamil asylum seekers are increasing day - by-day because of genocide on tamils in srilanka
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Tamil asylum seekers are increasing day - by-day because of genocide on tamils in srilanka
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Tamil asylum seekers are increasing day - by-day because of genocide on tamils in srilanka
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