BY THE DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does by the day mean? 

• BY THE DAY (adverb)
  The adverb BY THE DAY has 1 sense:

1. one every day

  Familiarity information: BY THE DAY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BY THE DAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One every day

Synonyms:

by the day; per diem

Context example:

we'll save 100 man-hours per diem

 Context examples 

Next day I was inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after I was sure of it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You must fight Death himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the night; in safety or in peril!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Excited by the day- long pursuit of him, swayed subconsciously by the insistent iteration on their brains of the sight of him fleeing away, mastered by the feeling of mastery enjoyed all day, the dogs could not bring themselves to give way to him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As soon as a general buzz gave him shelter, he added, in a low voice, directed solely at Fanny, I should be sorry to have my powers of planning judged of by the day at Sotherton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)