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daysworth en · NOUN

Etymology

From day + -s- + -worth.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one day.
    • [...] they will have topped off their aging auto's fuel tank and laid in a few daysworth of standby provisions and spare cash. Just In Case. 2002, John Barth, Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 333:
    • Spiers gives us the whole daysworth of exercise in one whack, a solid hour, and by the end of it I'm ready for my solitary, where I'll have to lie down a bit, exhausted, and wonder at the perplexing frenetic nature of life out there [...] 2004, Harold Strachan, Make a Skyf, Man!, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 141:
    • Even among the skeptical and conservative, we're told, many withdrew a wad of extra cash and laid in some daysworth of nonperishable food and jugged water, as their government's Y2K advisors recommended. 2012, John Barth, Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995-, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 154:

Translations (1)

fi päiväkiintiö (amount for one day)