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dailies

UK/ˈdeɪliːz/

dailies is the plural of daily.

Meaning of daily

Noun

daily (plural dailies)

  1. Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
    • In the home office these dailies may be filed under one of two methods. Geographically by the territory controlled by an Agency, filing the dailies by their numbers back of the guide indicating the locality. Geographically as above, but filing the dailies by expiration date instead of by their...1920, James Newton McCord, A Textbook of Filing, page 124
    1. A newspaper or comic strip etc. that is published every day.
    2. (UK) A cleaner who comes in daily.
    3. (UK, slang) A daily disposable.
    4. A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
    5. (US, colloquial) A daily driver.

See all 15 meanings of daily

Noun

dailies pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Lightly edited versions of the previous day's filming; rushes.
    • The chances are that a cameraman requesting that his dailies be printed at the middle of the scale is cheating himself.1972, American Cinematographer - Volume 53, page 811

Words that rhyme with dailies

Questions about dailies

What does dailies mean?
Dailies means lightly edited versions of the previous day's filming; rushes.
What is dailies the plural of?
Dailies is the plural of daily.
What part of speech is dailies?
Dailies is a noun.
How do you pronounce dailies?
Dailies is pronounced /ˈdeɪliːz/ (UK).

Words near dailies in the dictionary

  1. Dailamites
  2. Dailey
  3. Daileys
  4. dailie
  5. dailied
  6. dailies
  7. dailily
  8. dailiness
  9. Daillencourt
  10. Dailly
  11. daily

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