day-to-day
day-to-day adjective: ordinary, mundane, or everyday.
Adjective
day-to-day (not comparable)
- Ordinary, mundane, or everyday.
- One has to deal with the day-to-day chores.
- “The book is about guilt, adultery, murder, a chase through the mountains — you know, the usual day-to-day stuff,” Babcock said wryly.2025 August 2, Maureen Dowd, quoting Richard Babcock, “Attention, Men: Books Are Sexy!”, in The New York Times
- Happening every day, everyday.
- I would like to know about the day-to-day workings of the business.
- High manganese material is three times more costly, but its expectation of life is five years; in addition, it offers a big saving in day-to-day maintenance.1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Liverpool Street layout remodelled”, in Modern Railways, page 222
- Subject to daily redetermination.
- He has an ankle sprain and his status is day-to-day.
- [T]he supply of the basic necessities for making polish-remover is becoming more scarce every day. Our company is fortunate in having a year’s supply on hand but other organizations have been leading a day-to-day life, so to speak, with their polish-remover.1941 November 7, Herman Johnson, quotee, “Nail Polish Remover Days Are Numbered […]”, in Tucson Daily Citizen, late news edition, volume LXXII, number 263, Tucson, Ariz., →OCLC, page 11, column 3
Adverb
day-to-day (comparative more day-to-day, superlative most day-to-day)
- On a daily basis.
- The cost of gasoline is determined day-to-day.
Noun
day-to-day (uncountable)
- Ordinary, monotonous routine; that which is usual or mundane.
- People come here to escape the day-to-day.
day-to-day meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
day-to-day in Malayalam
- everyday, regular, daily
- ദിവസേന, സ്ഥിരമായ, ദെെനംദിന, ദെെനിക, നിരന്തരമായ, ക്രമപ്രകാരമുള്ള
day-to-day in Kannada
- ಅಂದಂದಿನ
Examples of day-to-day in a sentence
- Most of those working so hard to find a peace formula carried no major day-to-day responsibilities in Vietnam or Southeast Asia.1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:
- "After a year of patchy performance, passengers just want a consistent day-to-day service they can rely on and a better chance of getting a seat."2019 December 18, Andrew Roden, “Rail fares to rise by an average of 2.7% in January”, in Rail, page 16:
Forms of day-to-day
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | day to day |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more day-to-day |
| superlative | most day-to-day |
Phrases with day-to-day
Questions about day-to-day
- What does day-to-day mean?
- Day-to-day means ordinary, mundane, or everyday.
- What is day-to-day in Malayalam?
- Day-to-day in Malayalam is ദിവസേന, സ്ഥിരമായ, ദെെനംദിന. See Day-to-day meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use day-to-day in a sentence?
- Most of those working so hard to find a peace formula carried no major day-to-day responsibilities in Vietnam or Southeast Asia.
- What part of speech is day-to-day?
- Day-to-day can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
Words near day-to-day in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: day-to-day (page history and authors); day-to-day (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); day-to-day (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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