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DAY-TO-DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does day-to-day mean?
• DAY-TO-DAY (adjective)
The adjective DAY-TO-DAY has 1 sense:
1. of or belonging to or occurring every day
Familiarity information: DAY-TO-DAY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or belonging to or occurring every day
Synonyms:
daily; day-after-day; day-by-day; day-to-day
Context example:
a daily paper
Similar:
periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)
Context examples
The Office of Administrative Management plans and directs the day-to-day administrative functions of (the institute) through the following sections: administrative management; financial management; grants and contracts management; and personnel management.
(Office of Administrative Management, NCI Thesaurus)
Often, they don't have a fixed day-to-day schedule, and kitchens might be open to residents.
(Nursing Homes, NIH: National Institute on Aging)
Consumers are likely to receive advice regarding nutrition from multiple sources in their day-to-day lives.
(People with Positive Attitude More Likely to Eat Healthily, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But we didn’t know much about the impact of irregular sleep, high day-to-day variability in sleep duration and timing.
(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This area of the chart is meant to lift you out of day-to-day life and offer a 360-degree panoramic view and a range of possibilities you may have never considered.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A scientist or health care professional that has a financial agreement, as outlined in a binding statement of work, with the sponsor to bear full and ultimate responsibility for the scientific, administrative, ethical, legal, technical, and fiscal aspects of the study, and for day-to-day management of the scientific project, as well as for documenting and reporting its results.
(Contract Principal Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)
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