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quarter-day en · NOUN

Etymology

From quarter + day.

Meanings

1. (UK) Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.
   • 1908, It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ (Norton 2005, p. 1239)
   • If you would only allow us, poor chroniclers of progress, to invent a discovery now and then, we might give you a trimensual surprise, the effects of which would keep you up to the superlative degree of astonishment from one quarter-day to another. 1851, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 141:

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Translations (4)

ko 사시가절 (each of the four days starting a new quarter year) · pl dzień kwartalny (each of the four days starting a new quarter year) · pl suchy dzień (each of the four days starting a new quarter year) · ru квартальный день (each of the four days starting a new quarter year)