FINANCE,ACCOUNTINGthe firstdayof aquarter(= aperiodof threemonths)on whichpaymentsare made:Landlords ofteninsistthat formanagementpurposesthetermof theleaseshouldbeginon aquarterday.(Definition ofquarter dayfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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quarter dayOn the other hand, where an existing lease refers only to a term orquarterdayby name the new definition of 28th will apply.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0He had never before sent it in tillquarterday.FromProject GutenbergThe usurer would be very well satisfied to have all the time annihilated that lies between the present moment and nextquarterday.FromProject GutenbergIf a man is five minutes late in the morning getting to the yard he loses aquarterday, in many cases a whole day.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0There was a big sheet, and one cut off little coupons on eachquarterday.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0His landlord passing by would see the garden in a blaze of colour, and promise himself to raise the bookmaker's rent nextquarterday.FromProject GutenbergI'll tell you time enough--ifquarterdaymust come.FromProject GutenbergMy housekeeper sends me in her book everyquarterday, with an account of what she pays.FromProject GutenbergThe banks have decided that it is a convenientquarterdayfor them.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/quarter-day##
