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day-and-date

day-and-date adjective: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: specifying which time data is to be filled in: the day of the week and the calendar date, such as "Friday, 17 May".

Adjective

day-and-date (not comparable)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: specifying which time data is to be filled in: the day of the week and the calendar date, such as "Friday, 17 May".
  2. Designating the release of a film on multiple platforms, most commonly theatrical and home video, on the exact same day, or in very close proximity to each other.
    • Like Cuban, the Independent Film Channel has participated in a variation of day-and-date releasing, agreeing to release twenty-four films simultaneously in theaters and on cable through their First Take Initiative […]2009, Chuck Tryon, Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence, page 108

Questions about day-and-date

What does day-and-date mean?
Day-and-date means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: specifying which time data is to be filled in: the day of the week and the calendar date, such as "Friday, 17 May".
What part of speech is day-and-date?
Day-and-date is an adjective.

Words near day-and-date in the dictionary

  1. day-age creationism
  2. day-age creationist
  3. day-age creationists
  4. day-ager
  5. day-agers
  6. day-and-date
  7. Day-as
  8. Day-asan
  9. day-biter
  10. day-biters
  11. day-blind

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