daybook

[ dey-book ]

/ ˈdeɪˌbʊk /

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noun

Bookkeeping. a book in which the transactions of the day are entered in the order of their occurrence.

a diary; journal.

datebook.

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Origin of daybook

First recorded in 1570–80; day + book

Words nearby daybook

dayan, day and night, daybeacon, daybed, day blindness, daybook, day boy, daybreak, day-by-day, day camp, day care

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How to use daybook in a sentence

She managed the old daybook with surprising ease; Holm glanced at her from time to time as she worked.
Dry Fish and Wet|Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
He once showed me his daybook in which were noted down over five hundred dollars lent out in small sums to indigent Americans.
Marse Henry (Vol. 1)|Henry Watterson
He was calculating even in his pleasures, and, they say, kept a regular ledger and daybook of the moneys disbursed in his vices.
Guy Livingstone;|George A. Lawrence
Corny Kelleher closed his long daybook and glanced with his drooping eye at a pine coffinlid sentried in a corner.
Ulysses|James Joyce

As usual, Uncle Jabez was poring over his daybook and counting the cash in the japanned money box.
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island|Alice Emerson

British Dictionary definitions for daybook

daybook

/ (ˈdeɪˌbʊk) /

noun

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

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