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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
day-to-day
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
day-to-day running
▪ Brian took over the day-to-day running of the company while his father was away.
day-to-day/daily contact
▪ I like my job because it involves day-to-day contact with clients.
everyday/daily/day-to-day existence (=someone's normal life that is the same most days)
▪ He saw drugs as a way of escaping the tedium of his everyday existence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
▪ At other times it was treated as a day-to-day activity, associated only with mundane needs.
▪ Disturbance to the day-to-day activities therefore had to be kept to a minimum.
▪ Their busy day-to-day activities at the Commando Training Centre would not allow them time to get to know the locals.
▪ For much of day-to-day activity this is automatic; we are not conscious of any decision process.
▪ Logically, a far richer recruitment seam is available where case management is a day-to-day activity-in solicitors' private practice.
administration
▪ The day-to-day administration, however, is often left to professional management companies.
▪ The day-to-day administration is the task of the secretariat of the stock exchange.
▪ Second, he or she will have a large amount of day-to-day administration to oversee.
▪ The general does not want to involve the army in day-to-day administration.
▪ Implicit in the idea is a distinction between the policy-making work of advisers to ministers and the day-to-day administration of the departments.
▪ On the other hand, members must have an interest in matters of day-to-day administration when these affect their constituents.
basis
▪ Eventually Ubaldo became convinced that some one in the family circle was supplying the gang with information on a day-to-day basis.
▪ The band is playing on on a day-to-day basis a spokeswoman said last night.
▪ Indeed, I am most likely to have relationships on a day-to-day basis only with a relatively small number of people.
▪ In addition, interest on overdue tax accrued indefinitely and not on a day-to-day basis even if it was so calculated.
▪ However, the priorities of government manifested on a day-to-day basis frequently ignored the longer-term priorities nominally established in the plans.
business
▪ It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management.
▪ While with the Chargers for the past two years, McNeely oversaw the day-to-day business operations.
▪ Directors were given the exclusive right to manage the day-to-day business of the company.
▪ But since the arrival of Robins, he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman.
▪ But the real key to the discounters' success is the way they manage their day-to-day business.
▪ Senior officials could carry on with the day-to-day business of the state without concerning themselves with any kind of specialist ministerial control.
▪ For instance, monsoons may disrupt transport and power supplies and may affect the conduct of normal day-to-day business.
▪ But our activities extend well beyond the day-to-day business of meeting claims and dealing with queries.
life
▪ The wine glasses, tumblers, pipes and so on were articles which each painter handled regularly in the course of day-to-day life.
▪ The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise.
▪ There is a sound reason for rewording that clause, because that is too frequent an occurrence in day-to-day life in prison.
▪ In our day-to-day lives, including day-to-day scientific lives, we have little need of such confirmed hypotheses.
▪ The Tomorrow's World team have been following day-to-day life at her Framlingham home and will be filming the operation.
▪ He did not find the day-to-day life of a professional journalist congenial.
▪ The imperialists carried on their day-to-day life, and he felt sorry for them.
▪ There are activities organised by bi-communal enthusiasts, but day-to-day life goes on in different worlds.
management
▪ If the two-tier board structure were used, then the management board would have the sole power of day-to-day management.
▪ The advantage would be that ministers and civil servants would not be involved in day-to-day management.
▪ Current deputy senior partner Gil Hayward is to take over the firm's day-to-day management from Mr Ramshaw.
▪ Neither does the State Planning Commission, the vast organisation responsible for the day-to-day management of the economy.
▪ Firstly, there is the company responsible for the day-to-day management of the trust.
▪ Although some expense may be involved, much can be done by the class teacher in the day-to-day management of the classroom.
operation
▪ The operations level will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the organisation.
▪ Maintain a close relationship to day-to-day operations.
▪ Mr Brown is responsible for marketing strategy, programme development and quality control, while Mr Morse will administer day-to-day operations.
▪ Small groups provided the context of day-to-day operation.
▪ Simply by carrying out its day-to-day operations, an organisation necessarily communicates certain messages to those who interact with it.
▪ In that event the Strategic Rail Authority would run day-to-day operations while buyers were sought.
▪ They gave them much latitude in day-to-day operations and allowed them to mould law and order policies according to counter-insurgency theories.
▪ First, though MI5 is notionally under the control of the Home Secretary he will be told nothing about its day-to-day operations.
practice
▪ When one looks at this, it's surprising what little guidance in the day-to-day practice of medicine it offers.
▪ The materials have not been used within traditional library lessons, but have been integrated into day-to-day practice of teaching.
▪ What is important is that the studies outlined in this section have attempted to gain an insight into day-to-day practice.
running
▪ The day-to-day running of the house was in Mrs Cohen's hands.
▪ The day-to-day running of the Chaplaincy is being handled by the other Chaplains.
▪ This does not mean that the governing body should involve itself in the day-to-day running of the school.
▪ You are responsible for the day-to-day running of the hall, including cleaning and catering.
▪ Closer supervision of the day-to-day running was still their aim.
▪ Do you take responsibility for the day-to-day running of it?
▪ Ancillary staff All educational establishments are dependent for their day-to-day running on the ancillary staff.
work
▪ Justices, of course, are accustomed, as part of their day-to-day work, to assessing costs of comparatively small amounts.
▪ Also the day-to-day work of schools and the task of assessing pupils assumed a higher importance than the development of new curriculum.
▪ The consequences of two critical changes in child care policy and practice for day-to-day work in residential homes are discussed.
▪ Individuals are profoundly affected by their occupational socialisation, through training and through day-to-day work.
▪ In turn, I subsequently followed up some of the issues raised in the job interviews in the teachers' day-to-day work.
▪ What consequences follow from these two main changes for day-to-day work in residential homes?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As Managing Director, I am responsible for the day-to-day management of the company.
▪ Reeve decided to immerse himself in the day-to-day affairs of his company until business improved.
▪ Resident managers are responsible for the day-to-day operations of the hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If the two-tier board structure were used, then the management board would have the sole power of day-to-day management.
▪ Lawyers are translators - that is their day-to-day chore.
▪ Mr Brown is responsible for marketing strategy, programme development and quality control, while Mr Morse will administer day-to-day operations.
▪ Start by concentrating on your familiar day-to-day sentences.
▪ The concern of these groups has grown in response to a perceived widening of the gap between cherished moral values and actual day-to-day behaviour.
▪ The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise.
▪ The question is whether he can discharge that responsibility to Parliament without being in day-to-day charge.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
day-to-day

day-to-day \day-to-day\ adj. occurring every day.

Syn: daily, day-after-day.

Wiktionary
day-to-day

a. 1 (context idiomatic English) ordinary or mundane. 2 (context idiomatic English) Happening every day. 3 (context idiomatic US sports English) Subject to daily redetermination. adv. (context idiomatic English) On a daily basis. alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) ordinary or mundane. 2 (context idiomatic English) Happening every day. 3 (context idiomatic US sports English) Subject to daily redetermination. n. (context idiomatic English) Ordinary, monotonous routine; that which is usual or mundane.

WordNet
day-to-day

adj. occurring or done each day; "a daily record"; "day-by-day labors of thousands of men and women"- H.S.Truman; "her day-after-day behavior"; "an every day occurrence" [syn: daily, day-after-day, every day]

Usage examples of "day-to-day".

It certainly carried the kind of historic pedigree that would please a British-Canadian lord, it was widely held with no control blocks that would have demanded premium prices, and it was a well and conservatively managed enterprise, ideal for the Thomson habit of acquiring companies that turned decent profits without requiring day-to-day involvement.

It seemed to me that everything about the actual, pragmatic culture, and the physical realities of day-to-day life, reflected this cultural facet, including the crowdedness and the incredibly uncertain climate in which tornadoes, typhoons, and earthquakes are expected.

TRANSLTR was to be a free-standing decryption device whose day-to-day operation would be regulated solely by the NSA.

Although the day-to-day business of The Forks was handled by Tom Kirkman and Mitchell, Jass was still informed of major decisions that had to be made, and his advice was waited on, and while Jass appreciated the responsibility, from time to time it gave him the feeling that, again in his life, he did not quite fit in.

Wheatstone, that although I have followed the problems at a general administrative level, my duties as director of Sky City and chief implementor of the space shield program prevent the day-to-day detailed involvement that Hyslop, as my assistant, has been able to enjoy.

However, it would be invaluable to have Iraqis actively participating in day-to-day administration of the country as well as in building the processes that would eventually produce a new Iraqi government.

NSA throughout the intelligence community, but also to run the day-to-day operations, something previous directors had left to the cryptologic professional, the deputy director.

Should one not then simply accept the fact of multiple epistemologies, taking them as an inevitable feature of the casual barter of day-to-day existence?

They studied with their respective classmates throughout the day, learning their religious duties and expectations, the day-to-day functions of the abbey, and the fighting techniques.

A seventh volume, white with the Farseer Buck on the front, was where he penned his day-to-day minutiae.

For whilst we might have difficulties defining precisely what is meant by learning, it is obvious that day-to-day life, for anything from amoebae to rose bushes and humans, involves experience, and that one definition of life itself must involve the capacity to adapt to experience by changing behaviour.

Although everything about their day-to-day functioning was as mechanical as that of any other animal, humans could also think and above all had a soul, whereas, for Descartes, animals were capable only of fixed responses to their environments.

If that were so then to have a perfect memory would not be a help but a hindrance in our day-to-day existence, and the long search for techniques or drugs to improve our memory - a search which goes back far into antiquity - would be at best a chimera.

The real capital of Powys was Caer Dolforwyn, a fine hill topped by a royal stone, but Caer Dolforwyn, like Caer Cadarn, had neither the water nor the space to accommodate a kingdom's law court, treasury, armouries, kitchens and storehouses, and so just as Dumnonia's day-to-day business was conducted from Lindinis, so the government of Powys functioned out of Caer Sws and only in times of danger or at high royal festivals did Gorfyddyd's court move down the river to Caer Dolforwyn's commanding summit.

I'd say that in Nagorny's imagination Sun Stealer represented somebody in his day-to-day experience, and I see two obvious possibilities.