Daybook
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A daily chronicle; a diary.
"It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook, it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a daybook, and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book."
- 2 an accounting journal as a physical object wordnet
- 3 An accounting journal.
"Since these memoranda were marked down from day to day and the entries followed one another day by day, this first book of accounts was called a "daybook.""
- 4 a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred wordnet
- 5 A logbook.
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More examples"It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook, it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a daybook, and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book."
Etymology
From day + book. Cognate with Dutch dagboek (“diary, journal, logbook”), German Tagebuch (“diary, journal, daybook”), Danish dagbog (“diary”), Swedish dagbok (“diary, logbook, journal, daybook”).