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Definition of daily in US English:

daily

adjective

1attributive Done, produced, or occurring every day or every weekday.
‘a daily newspaper’
‘daily flights to Prague’
- ‘It is not unusual for a vessel's projected departure dates and times to change on an almost daily basis over a period of days or even weeks.’
- ‘For the next year it ran as a daily programme on weekday mornings.’
- ‘The impact for local businesses, already hit by a single daily delivery service, has been spelled out by Greater Manchester Chamber.’
- ‘Building and construction works on the lands are matters of almost daily routine.’
- ‘At first sight it can seem very hard and austere, with a daily schedule comprising set periods of silence, prayer, work and recreation.’
- ‘Several Hong Kong newspapers run daily supplements offering betting tips as well as pundits' analyses on various matches.’
- ‘During Lent, the daily weekday Mass will be at 8am in the parish church.’
- ‘Another interesting parade is the once or twice daily routine of "pet dogs" being walked past her place.’
- ‘On our daily commute to work and home, we pass people, places and objects.’
- ‘And starting tomorrow, the Evening Advertiser will be the first regional newspaper to carry his daily predictions.’
- ‘A friend of mine has escaped the daily grind for a jaunt to Paris.’
- ‘I don't see where anything has changed in anyone's daily living.’
- ‘At the moment, 90 % of Scots exceed the safe maximum daily intake of salt.’
- ‘But the company plans to ground five aircraft and reduce its activity by a fifth, including cutting three daily flights to the US and Canada.’
- ‘Following his daily routine, he sat by the river for a while.’
- ‘As this newspaper does its daily job, treading between different interest groups, our main concern is to freely report what happens on our patch.’
- ‘No other media has the kind of reach that the daily newspaper has - every day.’
- ‘They will offer daily flights from Gatwick after March.’
- ‘High daily doses of caffeine in pregnant monkeys increase the risk of stillbirth.’
- ‘If you read the daily newspaper over the past year, you would think that we were involved in a recession, if not outright depression.’
done every day, occurring every day, produced every day, everyday, day-to-day, quotidian
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1. 1.1 Relating to the period of a single day.
  ‘boats can be rented for a daily rate’
  ‘Senior counsel then proved why his daily charge rate was much higher than mine.’
  ‘Counsel agree that the calculation of the lost fees using the average daily fees for that period is as follows.’
  ‘The TV work isn't as glamorous as it sounds, he warns, citing early starts, long days and only a basic daily pay rate of around £70.’
  ‘In Grampian two orthodontists have carried out 10 extra clinics while a general surgeon has held two clinics, all at three times their daily rate.’
  ‘Temps' daily rates are agreed with their agency.’
  ‘He subsequently outlined the plans for a €2.40 daily rate via display of two discs.’
  ‘He was paid a daily rate - irrespective of how many hours he worked - which was presented to him by cheque at irregular intervals.’
  ‘Relevant daily pay is the rate of pay that must now be used as the basis for calculating payment for holidays, sick leave etc.’
  ‘Autorickshaw drivers demand a substantial part of one's daily earnings for a single long trip.’
  ‘Currently fish drying is carried out in the unorganised sector by women in rural areas who work for local agents on piece rates or on daily wages.’
  ‘All it takes is some staff training, the daily currency rate and a calculator.’
  ‘In several parts of the country, men and women were hired like contract labour on daily wages, the study pointed out.’
  ‘A new method of calculating costs should be devised, with barristers paid on a monthly or yearly basis, or for work done, rather than a daily rate.’
  ‘The daily studio rate for models doing commercial work is between £400 and £500.’
  ‘Until recently his average daily wage was $65 a day.’
  ‘The highest daily suicide rate actually occurs during the summer.’
  ‘One would ask, upfront, what the daily rate for using electricity to plug in a PC is.’
  ‘The poor lawyers want a little rise in their daily fee.’
  ‘So if a barrister's daily rate was £2,500 in London, it would be £3,000 in Bermuda.’
  ‘Under last year's agreement, the daily wage rate was 98 rupees with an attendance allowance of 14 rupees.’

adverb

Every day.
‘the museum is open daily’
- ‘The average adult only needs about 2,000 calories daily to stay healthy.’
- ‘Apparently, the chef changes the ice creams daily as well as the set specials.’
- ‘In December 2003, a new minor injuries unit was opened at Beckenham Hospital and currently treats about 30 patients daily.’
- ‘They were instructed to take a single tablet once daily for 12 months.’
- ‘The new route, which includes a brief stopover in Hong Kong, will leave twice daily every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.’
- ‘The site is growing by 20% per month and draws around 6,000 players daily.’
- ‘Some, who go to school, work for about fours hours daily.’
- ‘Flossing your teeth daily (or, at a pinch, using a mouthwash) can make you 6.4 years younger.’
- ‘The severity of influenza symptoms was recorded twice daily for 21 days on a four-point scale.’
- ‘It will be the duty of the depositors to verify daily whether the bank is opened daily or not.’
- ‘The facility now has a command center with satellite links that will enable it to coordinate thousands of airstrikes daily.’
- ‘Vicky was tormented daily, every single period, just because Leo Gerdin had showed some interest in her.’
- ‘Tonnes of flowers are sold on a daily basis in this bustling market, each trader selling a minimum of 1,000 kg of flowers daily.’
- ‘They practice religiously during the summer - up to two hours daily - and meet twice a week in the winter.’
- ‘Started with one old-fashioned cooker in a barn, the company now produces tens of thousands of snack foods daily.’
- ‘Since 1936 the palace has been used for an assortment of after-school clubs catering for about 1,400 youngsters daily.’
- ‘He is free on $3 million bail but must attend the court hearings daily.’
- ‘Theoretically, that's why newspapers come out daily, so what was missed or messed up the day before can be fixed today.’
- ‘She used to visit the parks daily, sometimes twice a day.’
- ‘There have been periodic mass demonstrations against the occupying forces, but they are not daily and not widespread.’
every day, seven days a week
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noun

informal

1A newspaper published every day except Sunday.
- ‘For no other reason than to sell newspapers, both dailies put Azania on the cover.’
- ‘We have, within less than forty miles of the Journal's front door, seventeen weekly competing newspapers and seven dailies.’
- ‘In the 90s, TOI's second morning daily The Independent went free with the Economic Times for almost a year.’
- ‘Although Aiko's birth made banner headlines in the country's dailies and magazines, journalists have, by and large, followed a strict code of self-discipline.’
- ‘Indian Express Newspapers publishes dailies with a combined readership of more than 5 million, including the highly influential Indian Express and Financial Express.’
- ‘Meanwhile, the right-wing daily Le Figaro concentrates on the security measures implemented in France.’
- ‘Urdu dailies and monthlies are published in America especially in California.’
- ‘Turkey and Christmas pudding took their seasonal toll on newspaper circulation in December, with most dailies and Sunday titles shedding tens of thousands of sales.’
- ‘According to the Italian daily La Repubblica, he was there to press the details of the Niger-uranium story.’
- ‘The newly combined firm became the third largest newspaper company with 11 dailies - three in the three largest cities.’
- ‘In our statement on the president's speech, we noted the comments of the British daily, the Guardian, published on January 30.’
- ‘He owns a personal library which receives several Urdu dailies, weeklies and monthlies published in different parts of the country.’
- ‘This information had been included in the story in the local weekly paper but not in the national dailies or the Sunday papers.’
- ‘The 60 Minutes exchange is very familiar to readers of Arab newspapers, college dailies, and liberal journals of opinion.’
- ‘The French daily Le Figaro says that the second rejection confirms the breadth of the European crisis.’
- ‘And we will find that audience taking over the responsibilities now exercised by a handful of critics on local dailies or weeklies or monthlies.’
- ‘The Sinhala daily, Lankadeepa, published a 25 column-inch story based on an interview with Wije Dias.’
- ‘The Independent newspapers own the London daily and Sunday along with the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life.’
- ‘The print campaign will appear in key pan-Arabic dailies, weeklies and monthly magazines reaching an estimated three million people.’
- ‘Like newspapers worldwide, French dailies have been hit hard by an advertising downturn.’
periodical, publication, magazine, gazette, digest, professional organ, review, newsletter, news-sheet, bulletin
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2British dated A woman who is employed to clean someone's house each day.
- ‘Most ‘dailies’ I have known have been disastrous.’
- ‘I hired a daily help - a pleasant middle-aged woman who agreed to keep the cottage clean and cook for me.’
- ‘The Blethering Classes pretended their daily help or the woman in the corner shop was worried.’
attendant, retainer
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3dailiesThe first prints from cinematographic takes, made rapidly for movie producers or editors; the rushes.
- ‘Then, she got fired off her next picture, Bad Girls, after the studio saw the dailies.’
- ‘Roberto and our other producer had basically convinced me not to watch dailies, yet I was heading up the production and giving out the paychecks.’
- ‘I said, let's just take the dailies to a movie theater and see if we can see anything or not.’
- ‘Looking through dailies, Capra spied a blond, squeaky voiced lady who caught his eye.’
- ‘He directly influenced the flow of specific scenes in the dailies, but he was not present for the final cutting.’

Phrases

daily life

The activities and experiences that constitute a person's normal existence.
- ‘It is true that people take their cues from what they see and experience in daily life.’
- ‘Sharon grew up in an area where musicianship and song are integral facets of daily life.’
- ‘Sometimes you step back from your routines of daily life and think about your life as a whole.’
- ‘Gambling is a fundamental part of human nature - we all take risks in daily life.’
- ‘It's more a story about problems within us and dealing with daily life in a city like this.’
- ‘When was the last time you applied what you purport to believe in to your daily life?’
- ‘This summary of body image accords with the common experiences of daily life.’
- ‘The way you experience your daily life will hinder your ability to cope.’
- ‘There are also few new experiences for you, just the humdrum of daily life and the loneliness of having to get on with it on your own.’
- ‘I think a central space should be designed for daily life, not for special events.’