daywork
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- dayworker noun
Etymology
Origin of daywork
before 1000; Middle English dai-werk the amount of land worked by a team in one day, Old English dæg-weorc day's work. See day, work
Example Sentences
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Yesterday’s pangrams were daywork, workaday, workday and yardwork.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023
With salaries ranging between $500 and $800 a month, cowboys don't get rich either, a fact that recently prompted Knox to move from solely punching cows to shoeing horses and doing daywork.
From Time Magazine Archive
Masons who worked on the courthouse downstate came back hungry, seamstresses returned from daywork for local white ladies and put on their nice dresses.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Now is when we learn everything there is to know about the people down the road and in the daywork houses, about the Sisters at the Kingdom Hall and the faraway relatives we rarely see.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
Don't any of you ever do daywork, she warns us.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
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