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- noun A
day where someone goes toschool
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Examples
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Last week, CNN reported on recent events in Garfield Heights, Ohio, where austerity measures have led local school officials to shorten the schoolday to five hours, get rid of subjects like art, music, and PE -- and send kids home before lunch.
Sam Chaltain: Other People's Children Sam Chaltain 2012
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The schoolday was confounded by feelings of newness and a fascination with American habits of being.
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Every schoolday, when I stumble down the hill to drop off Tadpole, jeans and a jumper hastily thrown on over my silk nuisette, bed hair crying out for a comb, we are greeted by the same sorry sight.
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Every schoolday, when I stumble down the hill to drop off Tadpole, jeans and a jumper hastily thrown on over my silk nuisette, bed hair crying out for a comb, we are greeted by the same sorry sight.
Tadpolecast 2008
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The main problem with having him home is that he feels well - it's not like I would wish my child ill, but if he has to be home from school on a schoolday, it's a shame he can't have one of those illnesses which involve lying somewhat limply on the sofa and watching DVDs all day.
A little more conversation (a little less action) katelnorth 2008
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Some of those transactions occurred at Pyle during the schoolday.
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However, some of the 'wasted time' during the schoolday or at office jobs is necessary.
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At the end of the schoolday, she heads home to her apartment building in Greenwich Village, where members of the household staff await her - but where her mother rarely stays.
slayground: Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M.M. Blume Little Willow 2006
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Maybe it's the fact that my elementary schoolday afternoons were filled with homework and Tom & Jerry, my Saturday mornings with Scooby-Doo and the Laff Olympics.
December 2006 2006
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Maybe it's the fact that my elementary schoolday afternoons were filled with homework and Tom & Jerry, my Saturday mornings with Scooby-Doo and the Laff Olympics.
Death Alert 2006
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