daily round
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3.2
- noun
:
rutina diaria
- Every morning, she completed her daily round by walking the dog and checking the mail.
Examples
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I mean, most people don't really need new ideas as part of their daily round, depending upon what their job is or what kind of people they are.
Blog text (22) -
He starts the engine, runs the wipers for a moment to clear the dew, and heads on his daily round: picking up freight and passengers for his father's packet boat, the Captain Jason.
Academic text (1994) -
I was also ready to give up my daily round of AA meetings.
Fiction book (1991) -
I leave my daily round of messages for Dexter.
Fiction book (1999) -
Lack of time saps the will and turns the daily round into a grind.
Academic text (1999) -
The visitors pointed to the fragmentation of sociopolitical space as the settlers experienced it in their daily round of life.
Academic text (2008) -
I can walk the Middlebury campus on my daily round and not see the ghosts of my friends who made such hard, life-altering decisions.
Fiction book (1999) -
It centered on a daily round of innocuous tasks and perceptions.
Fiction book (1994) -
It was the farmer's work that was of interest: his daily round, his agricultural techniques, his sources of amusement, his beliefs about spirits, his understanding of the world.
Academic text (1995) -
To Vanderhorst, it afforded escape from the daily round of hardship and indignity compounded by growing hatred for the generations that had left their children a drained and dirty world to live in.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
376
3.1
A set of visits to check people or places
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1.0
A usual order of things a person does every day
4
4.2
A boring, tiring routine of everyday work and chores
A daily pattern of plain unexciting activities like work and chores
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the usual activities and tasks performed each day' is directly derivable from combining 'daily' (everyday) with 'round' (a sequence or series of visits/tasks), following a standard adjective + noun composition. This compositional pattern is common across languages and predictable for learners who know both constituent senses, so a B1 learner would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Daily round comes from the idea of making a regular round, a set of stops or a short walk a person makes each day, like a doctor visiting patients, So, it came to mean the usual activities you do every day, your 'routine'.