DAILY | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of daily in English dailyadverb, adjective uk /ˈdeɪ.li/ us /ˈdeɪ.li/ Add to word list Add to word list A2 happening on or relating to every day: twice daily Take the tablets twice daily.daily routine Exercise has become part of my daily routine.on a daily basis We back up our computer files at work on a daily basis.daily grind She's looking forward to retiring and ending the daily grind (= hard, boring work or duty) of working in an office.daily life daily newspaper open daily being part of normal life and not special

• ordinaryHe took ordinary household objects and transformed them into pieces of art.
• everydayComputers are now just a part of everyday life.
• quotidianWe longed for the quotidian rituals, like shopping and tea, that the end of the war would bring.
• day-to-dayDay-to-day operations of the team would be handled by the assistant coach.
• dailyI'm looking for a good daily shampoo that won't damage my hair.

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• The museum is open daily except Mondays.
• The restaurant flies its fish in daily from Scotland.
• Britain is one of the few countries where milk is delivered daily to the doorstep by milkmen.
• He commutes daily between Leeds and Manchester.
• The post comes twice daily.

Relating to regular periods of time

• afternoons
• annual
• annum
• bi-yearly
• biannual
• circadian clock
• circadian rhythm
• dailiness
• daily grind
• evenings
• hourly
• nightly
• nights
• p.c.m.
• p.w.
• quadrennial
• statedly
• triennial
• triennially
• weekly

See more results » dailynoun [ C ] uk /ˈdeɪ.li/ us /ˈdeɪ.li/

daily noun [C] (NEWSPAPER)

a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday: The story was on the front page of all the dailies. The dailies all report that he denies the allegations. Synonym daily paper

• His campaign worked closely with the major dailies, feeding documents to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.
• I started out in print journalism with the national dailies.
• Many dailies are experiencing falling circulation.
• The survey found that more people read a Sunday paper than a daily.

Newspapers & magazines

• above/below the fold idiom
• annal
• anti-press
• back copy
• broadsheet
• chronicle
• circulation
• fold
• gazette
• glossy
• glossy magazine
• house journal
• house organ
• in circulation
• organ
• rag
• refereed journal
• sentinel
• serialize
• shōjo

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daily noun [C] (FILM)

 dailies [ plural ] mainly US (UK usually rushes) film that has been just been shot, before it has been edited (= changed, for example by having parts removed): The director was viewing dailies from the previous night's filming. When the film comes in, it's just dailies. Cinema & theatre: production, direction & recording

• acquire
• acquisition
• armourer
• aspect ratio
• audition
• auteur
• dolly
• filmmaker
• filmmaking
• fog machine
• framing
• framing device
• production designer
• prop
• recut
• rehearsal
• reshoot
• restage
• run through something phrasal verb
• staging

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daily noun [C] (CLEANER)

UK old-fashioned informal a person who is employed to clean someone else's home People who clean & tidy places & things

• bootblack
• chambermaid
• char
• charlady
• charwoman
• chimney sweep
• cleaner
• dishwasher
• home help
• housekeeper
• kitchen porter
• neat freak
• scullion
• soaper
• squeegee man
• sweep
• sweeper
• trash picker
• valet
• window cleaner

See more results »  on the daily US informal every day, or often: Those are the kinds of problems we face on the daily. When I moved to Australia, I expected to hear phrases like "G'day" and "cobber" on the daily, but nobody seemed to say them. They seem to drink wine on the daily. Compare on the regular Relating to regular periods of time

• afternoons
• annual
• annum
• bi-yearly
• biannual
• circadian clock
• circadian rhythm
• dailiness
• daily grind
• evenings
• hourly
• nightly
• nights
• p.c.m.
• p.w.
• quadrennial
• statedly
• triennial
• triennially
• weekly

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Continually & repeatedly (Definition of daily from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

daily | American Dictionary

dailyadjective, adverb [ not gradable ] us /ˈdeɪ·li/ Add to word list Add to word list happening on or relating to every day, or every working day: Take the pills twice daily. Exercise is part of my daily routine. dailynoun [ C ] us /ˈdeɪ·li/ a newspaper published every day of the week or every day except the weekend (Definition of daily from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

daily | Business English

dailyadjective uk /ˈdeɪli/ us Add to word list Add to word list happening or done every day: a daily meeting Will I be involved in the management of the business on a daily basis? existing or true for a single day: There has been an agreement to increase the daily rate of pay for temporary staff. dailyadverb uk /ˈdeɪli/ us every day: The new website will allow subscribers to check daily for new job listings. (Definition of daily from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of daily

daily Daily productivity is actually low due to low radiation levels and a cool growing season. From the Cambridge English Corpus Only symptoms with significant impact on daily activities contributed as diagnostic criteria. From the Cambridge English Corpus Daily fecundity (number of nymphs produced per adult per day) varied with time for both aphid species and in each experiment (fig. 2). From the Cambridge English Corpus Microscopical examination of the blood was performed on an almost daily basis. From the Cambridge English Corpus After treatment, patients were examined daily for 21 days, and follow-up examinations were performed at 3 and 6 months. From the Cambridge English Corpus Nucleated settlement would have placed the inhabitants of a farm in close daily proximity. From the Cambridge English Corpus All patients received 60 mg oral pseudoephedrine twice daily as outpatients. From the Cambridge English Corpus Such items are precisely what historians need to obtain a better and more concrete image of daily life. From the Cambridge English Corpus Through the 1970s archaeologists debated and refined their understanding of significance through hands-on practical applications in their daily work. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thereafter, numbers of spring migrants were counted and removed daily. From the Cambridge English Corpus The framework allows point models to be run over space using time sequences of interpolated, continuous daily maximum and minimum temperatures. From the Cambridge English Corpus Foraging frequency was positively correlated with minimum daily temperatures and very few foragers were observed in winter. From the Cambridge English Corpus Geranium fruits were collected daily, since their ripe fruits or seeds are released from the parent plant. From the Cambridge English Corpus Since the study involved retrospective thought, the respondents were required to have adequate cognitive capacity for daily social functioning. From the Cambridge English Corpus Not even those students contemplating a career in music felt that daily practice was necessary to maintain standards. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of daily These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of daily?

Translations of daily

in Chinese (Traditional) 每天地，天天地, （受僱為別人打掃家居的）清潔工，傭人… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 每天地，天天地, （受雇打扫别人家房屋的）清洁工，佣人… See more in Spanish diario, asistenta (feminine) mujer (feminine) de la limpieza, diario/ria [masculine-feminine]… See more in Portuguese diário, diariamente, diário/-ia [masculine-feminine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian रोज… See more 毎日の, 日々（ひび）の, 毎日（まいにち）… See more günlük, hergün ya da günde bir kez olan, yapılan… See more quotidien/-ienne, quotidiennement, tous les jours… See more diari… See more dagelijks, dagblad, hulp in de huishouding… See more ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் நடக்கிறது அல்லது தொடர்புடையது… See more रोज़… See more રોજ, દરરોજ, દૈનિક… See more daglig, hverdags-, dagligt… See more daglig, dagligen, dagstidning… See more rutin, harian, akhbar harian… See more täglich, die Tageszeitung, die Tageshilfe… See more daglig, dags-, hver dag… See more روز, ہر روز… See more щоденний, щоденно, щоденна газета… See more రోజూ… See more প্রাত্যহিক, রোজকার… See more (každo)denní, (každo)denně, deník… See more sehari-hari, setiap hari, harian… See more ทุกวัน, แต่ละวัน, หนังสือพิมพ์รายวัน… See more hàng ngày, nhật báo, người giúp việc… See more codzienny, codziennie, dziennik… See more 매일 일어나는… See more giornaliero, ogni giorno, quotidiano… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of daily

• daily bread
• daily dozen
• daily grind
• daily paper
• daily passenger
• average daily cost
• average daily sales

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• the daily round idiom
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• English   Adverb, adjective
  • Noun 
    • daily (NEWSPAPER)
    • daily (FILM)
    • dailies
    • daily (CLEANER)
    • on the daily
• American   Adjective, adverbNoun
• Business   AdjectiveAdverb
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