by the day

1. 1.

   one every day

   “we'll save 100 man-hours per diem”

   Synonymsper diem

Questions about by the day

What does by the day mean?

by the day means "one every day".

What is another word for by the day?

Close synonyms include per diem. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is by the day a common word?

by the day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.