term day

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of term day

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300

Example Sentences

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

Why should we try to measure this term day, in its first occurrences, by a chronometer which did not come into use until the fourth day?

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

As regards the term "day," it is surely a rule of sound criticism never to give an "extraordinary" meaning to a word, when the "ordinary" one will give good and intelligible sense to a passage.

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry

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

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.