quarter-day
quarter-day noun: each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.
Noun
quarter-day (plural quarter-days)
- Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.
- If you would only allow us, poor chroniclers of progress, to invent a discovery now and then, we might give you a trimensual surprise, the effects of which would keep you up to the superlative degree of astonishment from one quarter-day to another.1851, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 141
- 1908, It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ (Norton 2005, p. 1239)
Forms of quarter-day
| plural | quarter-days |
|---|---|
| alternative form | quarter day |
Origin of quarter-day
From quarter + day.
Questions about quarter-day
- What does quarter-day mean?
- Quarter-day means each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.
- What part of speech is quarter-day?
- Quarter-day is a noun.
- What is the plural of quarter-day?
- The plural of quarter-day is quarter-days.
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