dailies
dailies — noun
1. newspapers that come out on each weekday rather than only on Sundays.
newspapers that come out on each weekday rather than only on Sundays.
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
Eri delivers the morning dailies along her bicycle route before sunrise.
The librarian keeps the past week's dailies stacked beside the reading desks.
- newspapers
general term — includes weeklies and Sunday papers
- the press
broader — covers all news media, not only daily papers
- weeklies
papers that come out once a week
文法句型
the dailies
用法筆記
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.
常見錯誤
2. the day's raw film footage that a director and crew watch each evening to decide
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.
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.
The studio sends the dailies to the producer every night by encrypted link.
Nellie ordered a reshoot of the chase scene after watching the dailies twice.
- rushes
British production equivalent for the same daily footage
- raw footage
broader — any unedited shot, not necessarily reviewed daily
- final cut
the edited, polished version released to audiences
文法句型
watch / view the dailies
用法筆記
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
people who are paid to come to someone's house each weekday to clean and do small household jobs.
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
The dailies finished mopping the kitchen before the family came down for breakfast.
Many older households in central London still keep dailies rather than weekly cleaners.
文法句型
have / hire a daily
用法筆記
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
small tasks, exercises, or routines that someone is expected to do on each day of the week.
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.
Lakshmi logs into the app each morning to claim her dailies before work.
Most students at the academy treat their dailies as warm-ups, not real practice.
- daily routines
fuller phrase, often more formal
- daily tasks
neutral, work or chore-focused
- weeklies
tasks that reset once per week, not per day
文法句型
complete / finish one's dailies
用法筆記
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.