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dayhand

dayhand noun: a general laborer hired and paid on a daily basis, rather than through a long-term contract or a set salary.

Noun

dayhand (plural dayhands)

  1. A general laborer hired and paid on a daily basis, rather than through a long-term contract or a set salary.
    • I think, for most kinds of business, ten hours per day should constitute a day's work. My day hands do not average much more than nine hours.1870, Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor., “STATISTICS OP LAB”, in Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor (1870), page 224
    • I'd save 'bout half on my day hands who live and board at home.1896, Daily public ledger (Maysville, Ky.), “The Farmer's Friend”, in Daily public ledger (Maysville, Ky.): 1896-10-09

Examples of dayhand in a sentence

  • Let me say it is my belief that there will be no necessity for increasing the mine equipment and providing new mine cars or even increasing the dayhands employed in the mine1920, McGrawl-Hill Company, Coal age XVII, page 194:
  • Here again dayhands were used to do the work.1937, United States. Farm Security Administration, Flint River Farms, Georgia, page 2:
  • Dayhands might be cocky enough to run an unregistered woodsie along country roads at night.1988, Waterbridge, Edmund, Hinterland, page 372:

Forms of dayhand

pluraldayhands

Questions about dayhand

What does dayhand mean?
Dayhand means a general laborer hired and paid on a daily basis, rather than through a long-term contract or a set salary.
How do you use dayhand in a sentence?
Let me say it is my belief that there will be no necessity for increasing the mine equipment and providing new mine cars or even increasing the dayhands employed in the mine
What part of speech is dayhand?
Dayhand is a noun.
What is the plural of dayhand?
The plural of dayhand is dayhands.

Words near dayhand in the dictionary

  1. dayglows
  2. Daygo
  3. daygown
  4. daygowns
  5. Dayhagan
  6. dayhand
  7. dayhike
  8. dayhikes
  9. Dayhoff
  10. Dayhoffs
  11. Dayi

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