Webster's English Dictionary

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daily

1. dai.ly \'da--le-\ aj 1a: occurring, made, or acted upon every day  1b: 
   issued every day or every weekday  1c: of or providing for every day  2a: 
   reckoned by the day {average ~ wage}  2b: covering the period of or based 
   on a day {~ statistics} t to nightly in referring to the ordinary concerns 
   of the day or daytime; it may refer also to weekdays in contrast to 
   holidays and Sundays; DIURNAL is used in contrast to nocturnal and is now 
   chiefly in astronomical or poetic use; QUOTIDIAN emphasizes the quality of 
   daily occurrence SYN syn DIURNAL, QUOTIDIAN: DAILY is often used in contras 
2. daily av : every day : every weekday 
3. daily n : a newspaper published every weekday