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2 N‑COUNT If a person or company carries out a dawn raid , they try to buy a large number of a company's shares at the start of a day's trading, especially because they want to buy the whole company. [BUSINESS ] □  They acquired 11.2 per cent of the company in a dawn raid on Monday.

day ◆◆◆ /de I / (days )

1 N‑COUNT A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods of time in a week.

2 N‑VAR Day is the time when it is light, or the time when you are up and doing things. □  27 million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness. □  He arranged for me to go down to London one day a week. □  The snack bar is open during the day.

3 N‑COUNT You can refer to a particular period in history as a particular day or as particular days . □  He began to talk about the Ukraine of his uncle's day. □  She is doing just fine these days.

4 PHRASE If something happens day after day , it happens every day without stopping. □  The newspaper job had me doing the same thing day after day.

5 PHRASE In this day and age means in modern times. □  Even in this day and age the old attitudes persist.

6 PHRASE If you say that something has seen better days , you mean that it is old and in poor condition. □  The tweed jacket she wore had seen better days.

7 PHRASE If you call it a day , you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful. □  Faced with mounting debts, the decision to call it a day was inevitable.

8 PHRASE If someone carries the day , they are the winner in a contest such as a battle, debate, or sporting competition. [JOURNALISM ] □  For the time being, the liberals seem to have carried the day.

9 PHRASE If you say that something has had its day , you mean that the period during which it was most successful or popular has now passed. □  Beat music may finally have had its day.

10 PHRASE If something makes your day , it makes you feel very happy. [INFORMAL ] □  Come on, Bill. Send Tom a card and make his day.

11 PHRASE One day or some day or one of these days means at some time in the future. □  I too dreamed of living in London one day. □  I hope some day you will find the woman who will make you happy.

12 PHRASE If you say that something happened the other day , you mean that it happened a few days ago. □  I phoned your office the other day.

13 PHRASE If someone or something saves the day in a situation which seems likely to fail, they manage to make it successful. □  …this story about how he saved the day at his daughter's birthday party.

14 PHRASE If something happens from day to day or day by day , it happens each day. □  Your needs can differ from day to day. □  I live for the moment, day by day, not for the past.

15 PHRASE If it is a month or a year to the day since a particular thing happened, it is exactly a month or a year since it happened. □  It was January 19, a year to the day since he had arrived in Singapore.

16 PHRASE To this day means up until and including the present time. □  To this day young Zulu boys practise fighting.

17 PHRASE If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day , they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day , they are defeated. [mainly JOURNALISM ] □  His determination and refusal to back down had won the day.

18 PHRASE If you say that a task is all in a day's work for someone, you mean that they do not mind doing it although it may be difficult, because it is part of their job or because they often do it. □ [+ for ] For war reporters, dodging snipers' bullets is all in a day's work.