calendar day
Noun
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Noun
calendar day (plural calendar days)
- (legal) A timespan of exactly 24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next.
- 1997 Nov. 21, "French shopping and lunch from pounds 29 ↗," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 26 May 2014):
- Travel insurance is available at the special price of pounds 4 for one calendar day, pounds 10 up to 36 hours.
- 2004 June 24, Laura Mansnerus, "Trenton Approves $28 Billion Budget Plan ↗," New York Times (retrieved 26 May 2014):
- The $28 billion budget was approved by committees in both houses Wednesday. Since one calendar day must elapse before a floor vote, the votes will take place after midnight Thursday unless Republicans agree to suspend the rule.
- 2012 May 2, Simon Burnton, "The terrorist outrage in Munich in 1972 ↗," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 26 May 2014):
- "[T]he Games were stopped for a full 24 hours, though it was not a calendar day."
- 1997 Nov. 21, "French shopping and lunch from pounds 29 ↗," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 26 May 2014):
- A day having a conventional designation on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical identification within a named month.
- 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi (illustrated 2007 edition), ISBN 9780156035811, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=RmkhNOzuV5YC&pg=PA186&dq=%22calendar+day%22+subject:%22fiction%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ChOEU8PrEMiT8QHQxoC4Bw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22calendar%20day%22%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false p. 186 (Google preview)]:
- My story started on a calendar day — July 2nd,1977 — and ended on a calendar day — February 14th, 1978 — but in between there was no calendar.
- 2006 June 5, Jeremy Caplan, "[http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1200926,00.html A Devil of a Day]," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):
- The number 666 has long held significance . . . that it's a mark of the devil. But now that the actual calendar day is about to arrive — on Tuesday, 6/6/06 — it's not only the superstitious among us who are looking ahead nervously.
- 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi (illustrated 2007 edition), ISBN 9780156035811, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=RmkhNOzuV5YC&pg=PA186&dq=%22calendar+day%22+subject:%22fiction%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ChOEU8PrEMiT8QHQxoC4Bw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22calendar%20day%22%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false p. 186 (Google preview)]:
- (24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next) civil day
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