day-to-day

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day-to-day (not comparable)

1. Ordinary, mundane, or everyday.

   One has to deal with the day-to-day chores.

2. Happening every day, everyday.

   I would like to know about the day-to-day workings of the business.

   • 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Liverpool Street layout remodelled”, in Modern Railways, page 222:

     High manganese material is three times more costly, but its expectation of life is five years; in addition, it offers a big saving in day-to-day maintenance.

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:

     Most of those working so hard to find a peace formula carried no major day-to-day responsibilities in Vietnam or Southeast Asia. This lack enabled them to take a detached, above-the-battle stance.

   • 2019 December 18, Andrew Roden, “Rail fares to rise by an average of 2.7% in January”, in Rail, page 16:

     "After a year of patchy performance, passengers just want a consistent day-to-day service they can rely on and a better chance of getting a seat."

3. (US, sports) Subject to daily redetermination.

   He has an ankle sprain and his status is day-to-day.

• at the coal face
• front line

day-to-day (comparative more day-to-day, superlative most day-to-day)

1. On a daily basis.

   The cost of gasoline is determined day-to-day.

day-to-day (uncountable)

1. Ordinary, monotonous routine; that which is usual or mundane.

   People come here to escape the day-to-day.

• “day-to-day”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.