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day book

day book is the alternative form of daybook.

Meaning of daybook

Noun

daybook (plural daybooks)

  1. A daily chronicle; a diary.
    • It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook, it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a daybook, and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book.1992, Cinthia Gannett, Gender and the journal: diaries and academic discourse
    Synonyms:
    diary, journal
  2. (bookkeeping) An accounting journal.
    • Since these memoranda were marked down from day to day and the entries followed one another day by day, this first book of accounts was called a "daybook."1920, George Edward Bennett, Accounting: principles and practice
  3. A logbook.

Forms of day book

pluralday books

Questions about day book

What is day book the alternative form of?
Day book is the alternative form of daybook.

Words near day book in the dictionary

  1. day beacons
  2. day bed
  3. day beds
  4. day blind
  5. day blindness
  6. day book
  7. day books
  8. day boy
  9. day boys
  10. day by day
  11. day cab

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Adapted from Wiktionary: day book (page history and authors); daybook (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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