daybook

[ dey-book ]

noun

1. Bookkeeping. a book in which the transactions of the day are entered in the order of their occurrence.
2. a diary; journal.
3. datebook.

daybook

/ ˈdeɪˌbʊk /

noun

1. accounting a book in which the transactions of each day are recorded as they occur

Word History and Origins

Origin of daybook¹

First recorded in 1570–80; day + book

Example Sentences

She managed the old daybook with surprising ease; Holm glanced at her from time to time as she worked.

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He once showed me his daybook in which were noted down over five hundred dollars lent out in small sums to indigent Americans.

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He was calculating even in his pleasures, and, they say, kept a regular ledger and daybook of the moneys disbursed in his vices.

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Corny Kelleher closed his long daybook and glanced with his drooping eye at a pine coffinlid sentried in a corner.

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As usual, Uncle Jabez was poring over his daybook and counting the cash in the japanned money box.

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