day-to-day

See also: day to day

English

Alternative forms

• day to day

Adjective

day-to-day (not comparable)

1. Ordinary or mundane.

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

2. Happening every day.

   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.

Coordinate terms

Related terms

• second-to-second
• minute-to-minute
• hour-to-hour
• day-to-day
• week-to-week
• month-to-month
• quarter-to-quarter
• year-to-year
• biennium-to-biennium
• triennium-to-triennium
• quadrennium-to-quadrennium
• quinquennium-to-quinquennium
• decade-to-decade
• century-to-century
• millennium-to-millennium

Translations

ordinary or mundane

• Bulgarian: всекидневен (bg) (vsekidneven)
• Galician: diario (gl)
• German: alltäglich (de), gewöhnlich (de), banal (de)
• Italian: ordinario (it)
• Russian: бу́дничный (ru) (búdničnyj), обы́денный (ru) (obýdennyj), повседне́вный (ru) (povsednévnyj)
• Spanish: día a día
• Yiddish: טאָג־טעגלעך (tog-teglekh)

happening every day

• Bulgarian: ежедневен (bg) (ežedneven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 每日的 (zh) (měirì de), 日常的 (zh) (rìcháng de)

• Galician: diario (gl)
• German: tagtäglich (de), täglich wiederkehrend
• Italian: giornaliero (it), di tutti i giorni
• Russian: ежедне́вный (ru) (ježednévnyj), регуля́рный (ru) (reguljárnyj)
• Spanish: día a día
• Yiddish: טאָג־טעגלעך (tog-teglekh)

See also

• at the coal face
• front line

Adverb

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.

Coordinate terms

Related terms

• second-to-second
• minute-to-minute
• hour-to-hour
• day-to-day
• week-to-week
• month-to-month
• quarter-to-quarter
• year-to-year
• decade-to-decade
• century-to-century

Noun

day-to-day (uncountable)

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

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

Translations

ordinary, monotonous routine; that which is usual or mundane

• Galician: día a día m
• Spanish: día a día m

References

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