quarter-day
1Quarter day — Quarter Quar ter (kw[aum]r t[ e]r), n. [F. quartier, L. quartarius a fourth part, fr. quartus the fourth. See {Quart}.] 1. One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter… …
2quarter day — ˈquarter day noun [countable] FINANCE ACCOUNTING a day that officially begins a three month period of the year, and on which payments are made: • Rent is payable in advance on the usual quarter days. * * * quarter day UK US noun [C] UK ► …
3quarter day — any of four days in the year when certain payments become due. In England, they are Lady Day (25 March), Midsummer Day (24 June), Michaelmas Day (29 September) and Christmas Day (25 December). For Scotland the days are Candlemas (28 February),… …
4quarter day — n. any of the four days regarded as beginning a new quarter of the year, when quarterly payments on rents, etc. are due …
5quarter day — n technical BrE a day which officially begins a three month period of the year, and on which payments are made, for example at the ↑stock exchange …
6quarter day — quarter ,day noun count in the U.K., one of four days in the year when some official payments are made …
7quarter day — ► NOUN Brit. ▪ each of four days in the year on which some tenancies begin and end and quarterly payments fall due …
8quarter day — noun a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …
9quarter day — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms quarter day : singular quarter day plural quarter days in the UK, one of four days in the year when some official payments are made …
10quarter-day — noun Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due. , 1908, It is late in March, so quarter day is at hand. Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ (Norton 2005, p. 1239) …
