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Definition of Paydays
1. payday [n] - See also: payday
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paydays
Literary usage of Paydays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philadelphia Unemployment, with Special Reference to the Textile Industries by Joseph Henry Willits (1915)
"This increase should be determined by subtracting the average number on the
payroll at the first four paydays at the beginning of the preceding year from ..."
2. Report by Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1877)
"... M paydays During somewhat more than half of the year I was absent at the
Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, to which I was, as you are a «-are, ..."
3. East of Cleveland: Moral Imagination in Industrial Culture, 1920П1940 by Richard Cartwright Austin (2004)
"Mills in Youngstown reduced production or closed entirely. Elijah had customarily
extended credit to mill families between paydays. Now many had no paydays, ..."
4. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"... eleven in the evening they were again so lively that they went to a Chinese
restaurant that was frequented by clerks and their sweethearts on paydays. ..."
5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"... stores, or offices aforesaid, at paydays, or on other occasions relating to
the naval services,' and (2) to inquire and search by warrant for goods and ..."
6. Astronomy by Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden (1883)
"... one of the governors ordered the year to be divided into 14 months, in order
that the paydays might recur more rapidly. A year was fixed at 365 days, ..."
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