match day
See also: matchday
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Noun edit
match day (plural match days)
- The day when graduating medical-school students find out where they will serve as residents.
- (sports) The day on which a sporting event takes place.
- 2001, David Griffiths, The Weekend Warrior[3], Reedswain, →ISBN, page 115:
- For a player to perform, his body machinery must be continually fuelled, oiled and checked long before the first whistle. Match day strategies involving the consumption of large amounts of food deemed to have a beneficial content with regard to performance should therefore not be used as a substitute for a poor diet across the preceding days or weeks.
- 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 48:
- The station will be adjacent to Millwall Football Club's ground and would help ease the burden of match-day crowds.
Alternative forms edit
Translations edit
day with a sporting event
References edit
- “match day”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.