Specific amount of money that an organization gives an individual, typically an employee, per day to cover living expenses when travelling on the employer's business.
See more 1 I'm just working on your per diem forms and your liability documents.
2 This means a large chunk of employees' per diem spending goes unchecked.
3 The couple of bottles per diem prognosticates disintegration, with its accompanying recklessness.
4 The artisan, who formerly gained fifteen sous per diem , now gained sixty.
5 Its rate is way over government per diem but what the hell.
6 They get paid the same per diem - they get the same benefits.
7 Three dollars per diem , with travelling expenses, I shall deem a satisfactory salary.
8 My room, with attendance, only cost me three piastres per diem .
9 By then the per diem will probably look pretty good.
10 This was accomplished in fifty-five travelling days, twelve miles per diem on an average.
11 Puskis went through the conversation about keeping his own per diem all over again.
12 For several months our finds there averaged from three to five diamonds per diem .
13 Oh, immortal soul, for one quarter of an hour per diem de-Popkinize thine immortality!
14 Selectmen receive a sum per diem ; constables, fees; school committeemen make out their own bills.
15 I can just about afford the per diem , but even this small amount frightens me.
16 I lived very sparingly indeed; two shillings per diem paid for my food and tobacco.
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