day-to-day

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day-to-day • adj. happening every day: day-to-day management of the classroom. ∎  ordinary; everyday: day-to-day domestic life. ∎  short-term; without consideration for the future: the struggle for day-to-day survival. ∎ Sports (of a player) not playing owing to a minor injury that is being treated and evaluated on a daily basis: their shortstop is listed as day-to-day• n. [in sing.] an ordinary, everyday routine: they have come to escape the day-to-day.• adv. on a daily basis: the information to be traded is determined day-to-day.

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