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Definition of By the day
1. Adverb. One every day. "We'll save 100 man-hours per diem"
Lexicographical Neighbors of By The Day
Literary usage of By the day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... it must exercise its option, by the day the interest falls due, to give to
its bondholders, for such interest, scrip for the full amount thereof. ..."
2. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1832)
"... or to 7 E. 4.15. save his freehold or inheritance, may appeare by the day he
hath 8 E- 4-18- by the roll. ffi;8u.b. day in bank, is all one day. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"The second object of taxation in this statute is horses hired by the day or part
of the day, to draw carriages upon a public road, to be used in travelling ..."
4. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"The other SOO are paid by the day, work equally long with the others, and get no
more money for their overtime. . . . The work of these 200 people for half ..."
5. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1882)
"A man haymaker by the day, with meat yl,, without meat 6d. ... A joiner's prentice
which hath not served four years, by the day, with meat 3</., ..."
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