match day

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match day

noun match days · matchday · match-day

  1. The day when graduating medical-school students find out where they will serve as residents. On match day, at exactly noon, we would each receive a white envelope with a single piece of paper listing the hospital and program where we would spend the next several years.
  2. The day on which a sporting event takes place. For a player to perform, his body machinery must be continually fuelled, oiled and checked long before the first whistle. Match day strategies involving the consumption of large amounts of food deemed to have a beneficial content with regard to performance should therefore not be used as a substitut

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noun day with a sporting event

Españoljornada
DeutschSpieltag
Italianogiornata

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@misc{match_day_2026,
  title = {match day},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/match%20day},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}