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quarter day

quarter day noun: each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.

Noun

quarter day (plural quarter days)

  1. Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.
    • [T]he money was deposited in the hands of the mortgager, who, in the hearing of the lender, laid strong injunctions on his steward to pay the interest punctually at quarter-day.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
    • The effect was that the line from Trades Lane to Carolina Port became part of the joint railway, as from Whitsunday, 1904. This date, of course, was the Scottish quarter day (May 15) and not the movable ecclesiastica festival.1958 February, Charles E. Lee, “The Dundee & Arbroath Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 123

Forms of quarter day

pluralquarter days
alternative formquarter-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, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.
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.

Words near quarter day in the dictionary

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  3. quarter courts
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  5. quarter cracks
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  8. quarter deck
  9. quarter decks
  10. quarter eagle
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