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quarter days

quarter days is the plural of quarter day.

Meaning of quarter day

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

Questions about quarter days

What is quarter days the plural of?
Quarter days is the plural of quarter day.

Words near quarter days in the dictionary

  1. quarter court
  2. quarter courts
  3. quarter crack
  4. quarter cracks
  5. quarter day
  6. quarter days
  7. quarter deck
  8. quarter decks
  9. quarter eagle
  10. quarter eagles
  11. quarter farthing

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