Dayton

American

[deyt-n] / ˈdeɪt n /

noun

Jonathan, 1760–1824, U.S. politician, Speaker of the House 1795–99.
a city in SW Ohio.

Dayton British

/ ˈdeɪtən /

noun

an industrial city in SW Ohio: aviation research centre. Pop: 161 696 (2003 est)

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The project was commissioned as part of the La Plaza shopping complex by Julia Carnell, the heiress to a national cash register empire based in Dayton, Ohio.

From Los Angeles Times

Target, an offshoot of department-store chain Dayton Hudson, had opened its first store in Minnesota eight years earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal

“She’s the one who always urged us to play,” he told the Dayton Daily News in 2023, “and sometimes she’d be right out there with us in the yard when we were having pick-up games.”

From Los Angeles Times

In Dayton, Ohio, vacant positions for purchasing agents resulted in delays in acquiring hundreds of prosthetics, according to an internal VA report from May.

From Salon

The Dayton Peace agreement brought an end to the war, just four months after the massacre.

From BBC

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