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daily

[ dey-lee ]

adjective

  1. of, done, occurring, or issued each day or each weekday:

    daily attendance; a daily newspaper.

  2. computed or measured by the day:

    daily quota; a daily wage.



noun

plural dailies.
  1. a newspaper appearing each day or each weekday.
  2. dailies, Movies. a series of hastily printed shots from the previous day's shooting, selected by the director to be viewed for possible inclusion in the final version of the film; rushes.
  3. British.
    1. a nonresident servant who comes to work every day; a permanently employed servant who sleeps out.
    2. a person employed to do cleaning or other household work by the day.

adverb

  1. every day; day by day:

    She phoned the hospital daily.

daily

/ ˈɪɪ /

adjective

  1. of or occurring every day or every weekday

    a daily paper

  2. earn one's daily bread
    to earn one's living
  3. the daily round
    the usual activities of one's day
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a daily publication, esp a newspaper
  2. Also calleddaily help another name for a charwoman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adverb

  1. every day
  2. constantly; often
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • 岹l·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of daily1

First recorded before 1000; late Middle English; Old English æī; equivalent to day + -ly
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Word History and Origins

Origin of daily1

Old English æī; see day , -ly 1
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But for the church officials and the families at Holy Family Church, the pope was not a distant religious figure in a faraway country, but a daily presence.

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He’s not piloting these days, but almost daily he’ll sit in his office and get behind a simulator to operate digital planes or helicopters.

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Maughn, an English professor from Santa Cruz, began using the app over a decade ago when he started taking daily five-mile walks.

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That’s a natural question that evolves from the unending daily tirade of articles and headlines telling us that Trump is a tyrant, a liar, a moron and a horrible fool.

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The cuts would affect response times by the department to answer requests from the Fire and Police departments, and would result in roughly 700 unanswered daily calls from residents to the Transportation Department’s communications center.

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