WordNet
by the day
adv. one every day; "we'll save 100 man-hours per diem" [syn: per diem]
Usage examples of "by the day".
Tossed as he'd been by the day's emotional maelstrom, that question had never even occurred to him.
Their instincts and orders, heightened by the day's events, were to crush these two.
But, then, a new thought brought on by the day's work came to her and she drew it back.