per diem

1. 1.

   a daily allowance for living expenses (especially while traveling in connection with your job)

   Broaderallowance

1. 1.

   one every day

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

   Synonymsby the day

Questions about per diem

What does per diem mean?

per diem means "a daily allowance for living expenses (especially while traveling in connection with your job)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for per diem?

Close synonyms include by the day. 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 per diem a common word?

per diem is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.