quarter-day

noun

Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.

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Meanings

nounquarter-day (plural quarter-days)

plural quarter-days · alternative quarter day

  1. UKEach 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)

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    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

Origin

From quarter + day.

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Translations

Korean 사시가절
  • 사시가절 (sasigajeol)each of the four days starting a new quarter year
Polish dzień kwartalny, suchy dzień
  • dzień kwartalnyeach of the four days starting a new quarter year
  • suchy dzieńeach of the four days starting a new quarter year
Russian квартальный день
  • квартальный день (kvartalʹnyj denʹ)each of the four days starting a new quarter year
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APA

quarter-day. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarter-day

MLA

“quarter-day.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarter-day. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quarter-day,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarter-day.

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