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- noun A common room in a
barracks ordormitory intended for the inhabitants thereof to mingle in and socialize in.
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Examples
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The plan was to build a single storey 10-bed communal cell design with a "dayroom" formed by grouping six cells around a housing unit, thus eliminating unnecessary balconies and stairways, as well as unnecessary huge indoor circulation spaces, such as corridors and passages.
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It was strange to think of them as having only 'night rooms' at the Gasthaus Freud — as opposed to Ronda Ray having her 'dayroom'; it struck me how dayrooms and night rooms were used for similar purposes.
The Hotel New Hampshire Irving, John, 1942- 1981
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Reading them, you might wonder whether there was a WiFi hot spot in the dayroom at St. Elizabeths Hospital.
How can the state of the union be sound if our minds are not? Courtland Milloy 2011
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Reading them, you might wonder whether there was a WiFi hot spot in the dayroom at St. Elizabeths Hospital.
How can the state of the union be sound if our minds are not? Courtland Milloy 2011
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A new sleeping room had been built, and an adjacent dayroom almost complete.
Work Camp 415 GW 2010
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Once upon a time, I was lounging in the dayroom when the fire alarm went off.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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Lena found her there a minute later, slumped down in the piles of paper, listlessly pawing through them, disconnected and withdrawn, a mental patient in a dayroom.
NEVER WAVE GOODBYE DOUG MAGEE 2010
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Once upon a time, I was lounging in the dayroom when the fire alarm went off.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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There is also a dayroom for the girls who will work with me.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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Ellen and Polly were in the workshop dayroom at the back of the house in Vine Street.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word dayroom
Slang: Boring, lame, no fun.
July 20, 2015