day room
noun
a room at an institution, as on a military base, providing facilities for leisure activities.
dayroom
-
a variation of
day room.
Example Sentences
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Eventually, the jailers ordered all of the inmates to the dayroom and left them there for a few hours before interviewing them about what happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
Our treasured freedom to move around on the unit, to the chow hall, recreation yard or the dayroom to watch TV and use the phones was suspended.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2020
The TV news is on in the dayroom, where they also have access to the Internet, but hardly anyone goes in there.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2020
He does other men’s laundry and washes out their bowls in exchange for a share of meals cooked up in the dayroom microwave.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2018
In the evenings kids watched TV or played Ping-Pong and dominoes in the dayroom, or settled in to make phone calls at one of the two pay phones.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
