dailies

IPA/dˈeɪliz/
KK[dˈeliz]IPA/dˈeɪliːz/

dailies — noun

1. newspapers that come out on each weekday rather than only on Sundays.

1.nounB2
Definition

newspapers that come out on each weekday rather than only on Sundays.

Example

Caio reads three dailies before driving to his office in São Paulo.

plural count noun: 'three dailies'

Most British dailies put the royal wedding on their front pages that morning.

collocation: British / American / national dailies

Common collocations
  • national dailies
  • British dailies
  • morning dailies
  • read the dailies
Synonyms
  • newspapers

    general term — includes weeklies and Sunday papers

  • the press

    broader — covers all news media, not only daily papers

Antonyms
  • weeklies

    papers that come out once a week

Grammar Patterns

the dailies

Usage Note

Plural-only in this sense — a single paper is 'a daily'. Often appears as 'the dailies' when referring to a market's main newspapers as a group.

Common Mistakes

I bought a dailies at the kiosk.
I bought a daily at the kiosk.
Use the singular 'a daily' for one paper; 'dailies' is the plural.

2. the day's raw film footage that a director and crew watch each evening to decide

2.nounC1
Definition

the day's raw film footage that a director and crew watch each evening to decide what was captured well and what must be reshot.

Example

After dinner, the director Noor sat down with her crew to review the dailies.

collocation: review / watch / screen the dailies

Christopher noticed a microphone in the corner of one shot while screening the dailies.

Common collocations
  • watch the dailies
  • review the dailies
  • screen the dailies
Synonyms
  • rushes

    British production equivalent for the same daily footage

  • raw footage

    broader — any unedited shot, not necessarily reviewed daily

Antonyms
  • final cut

    the edited, polished version released to audiences

Grammar Patterns

watch / view the dailies

Usage Note

Specialist film-industry term — used in production, not consumer-facing reviews. Sometimes called 'rushes' in British production.

3. people who are paid to come to someone's house each weekday to clean and do smal

3.nounC1
Definition

people who are paid to come to someone's house each weekday to clean and do small household jobs.

Example

Kofi's grandmother in Manchester had two dailies who came on alternate weekday mornings.

plural count noun: 'two dailies'

Greta hires her dailies through a small agency near Hyde Park.

collocation: hire / employ one's dailies

Common collocations
  • hire a daily
  • the dailies come in
  • send the dailies home
Synonyms
  • cleaners

    modern neutral term for the same job

  • char

    older British slang, similar register

Grammar Patterns

have / hire a daily

Usage Note

Old-fashioned and chiefly British. Modern Taiwanese readers will rarely meet this sense outside period drama or older British novels — 'cleaner' is now the everyday term.

4. small tasks, exercises, or routines that someone is expected to do on each day o

4.nounB2
Definition

small tasks, exercises, or routines that someone is expected to do on each day of the week.

Example

Nadia finishes her language dailies on the train before her first meeting.

collocation: do / finish / complete one's dailies

The piano teacher gave Adina a short book of dailies for finger practice.

Common collocations
  • do one's dailies
  • finish the dailies
  • claim the dailies
Synonyms
Antonyms
  • weeklies

    tasks that reset once per week, not per day

Grammar Patterns

complete / finish one's dailies

Usage Note

Informal, often heard in fitness, language-learning, music practice, and video-game contexts where a set of small tasks resets every day. Distinguish from sense 1 ('newspapers') by context — sense 4 is something you do, sense 1 is something you read.

Word family

Synonym discussion

Sense: noun/1

'Dailies' specifically names the papers a city or country puts out on each weekday; it tells the reader 'these come out every working day' and nothing more. 'Newspapers' is the umbrella term — it includes weekly papers, Sunday editions, and free papers, so it is what you reach for when frequency is not the point. 'Tabloids' and 'broadsheets' are about physical and editorial style, not schedule: tabloids are smaller, more sensational; broadsheets are larger and tend to carry longer, more formal pieces. A morning commuter buying 'three dailies' is choosing on schedule; choosing between 'a tabloid' and 'a broadsheet' is choosing on tone and depth.

dailies ↗newspapers ↗tabloidsbroadsheets ↗

Common collocations

Nouns

  • morning dailies
  • national dailies
  • British dailies
  • the day's dailies

Phrases

  • read the dailies
  • review the dailies
  • finish one's dailies

Prepositions

  • in the dailies

Etymology

Old EnglishMiddle EnglishModern English

A plural-only noun formed from the adjective 'daily' (Old English 'dæglic', from 'dæg' meaning 'day' plus '-lic' meaning 'like'). The noun use grew separately for each sense — the newspaper sense from the 19th century when papers began appearing every weekday, the film sense from early 20th-century Hollywood production crews who screened the day's footage each evening, and the cleaning-help sense from late-Victorian British households where domestic staff came in by the day rather than living in.