daily
[dey-lee]
- of, done, occurring, or issued each day or each weekday: daily attendance; a daily newspaper.
- computed or measured by the day: daily quota; a daily wage.
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- a newspaper appearing each day or each weekday.
- dailies, Movies. a series of hastily printed shots from the previous day's shooting, selected by the director to be viewed for possible inclusion in the final version of the film; rushes.
- British.
- a nonresident servant who comes to work every day; a permanently employed servant who sleeps out.
- a person employed to do cleaning or other household work by the day.
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- every day; day by day: She phoned the hospital daily.
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Origin of daily
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Contemporary Examples
Despite the strong language, however, the neither the JPO nor Lockheed could dispute a single fact in either Daily Beast report.
“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
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January 8, 2015
As part of that effort, Said received weapons training for months, sources told The Daily Beast.
“We quietly did,” Reed previously told The Daily Beast of removing ISIS.
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January 8, 2015
That is why The Daily Beast stands with Charlie Hebdo and published their controversial covers in the wake of the attack.
Historical Examples
Men who take from the poor daily interest for a drachma, and spend it in debauchery.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
Everything that you have been asserting Hope's daily life disproves.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
For months I had received daily and hourly the most signal benefits from his hands.
The daily proceedings of Congress at Washington are discussed in Japan.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
In his dressing room he kept a large open bible in which he daily read.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
daily
- of or occurring every day or every weekdaya daily paper
- earn one's daily bread to earn one's living
- the daily round the usual activities of one's day
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- a daily publication, esp a newspaper
- Also called: daily help British another name for a charwoman
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- every day
- constantly; often
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Word Origin
Old English dæglīc; see day, -ly 1
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Word Origin and History for daily
adj.
Old English dæglic (see day). This form is known from compounds: twadæglic "happening once in two days," þreodæglic "happening once in three days;" the more usual Old English word was dæghwamlic, also dægehwelc. Cognate with German täglich.
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