quarter-day

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quarter-day

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From quarter + day.

noun quarter-days · quarter day

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

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noun each of the four days starting a new quarter year

한국어사시가절 sasigajeol
Русскийквартальный день kvartalʹnyj denʹ

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@misc{quarter_day_2026,
  title = {quarter-day},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quarter-day},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}