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daybooks

daybooks is the plural 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.

Questions about daybooks

What is daybooks the plural of?
Daybooks is the plural of daybook.

Words near daybooks in the dictionary

  1. dayboard
  2. dayboards
  3. dayboat
  4. dayboats
  5. daybook
  6. daybooks
  7. dayboy
  8. dayboys
  9. daybreak
  10. daybreaks
  11. Daybrook

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