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term day

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noun

  1. a fixed or appointed day, as for the payment of money due; a quarter day.


Etymology

Origin of term day

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300

Example Sentences

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The term "day" is used to cover the hours of active, waking life, from breakfast to bedtime.

From The Alleged Haunting of B—— House by Goodrich-Freer, A.

Hence a part of a day or night would be counted as a whole day, the term day obviously having two senses, as night and day, or day contrasted with night.

From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas

And driving to Ocock's office, on term day, he resolved to go on afterwards to the Bank of Australasia and there deposit this sum.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

Hock-Tuesday was an important term day, rents being then payable, for with Michaelmas it divided the rural year into its winter and summer halves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

On April 16 Kennedy had a term day.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir