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Meanings of per diem in English

Spanish
al día

One every day.

al día
Catalan
per diem

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.

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Examples for "by the day"
Examples for "by the day"
1
Year by year, and now by the day and hour, it strengthened.
Relic of the Dawn
2
Serious Money: Financial and economic analysis becomes more sophisticated by the day.
The Irish Times
3
The list is long and inglorious, and getting longer by the day.
The Irish Times
4
He said the cost of serving clients was increasing by the day.
Reuters
5
The Empress grew stranger by the day, in ways difficult to define.
Surrender to the will of the night
Usage of per diem in English
1
I'm just working on your per diem forms and your liability documents.
While galileo preys
2
This means a large chunk of employees' per diem spending goes unchecked.
Reuters
3
The couple of bottles per diem prognosticates disintegration, with its accompanying recklessness.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
4
The artisan, who formerly gained fifteen sous per diem, now gained sixty.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
5
Its rate is way over government per diem but what the hell.
The charlemagne pursuit
6
They get paid the same per diem - they get the same benefits.
Radio NZ
7
Three dollars per diem, with travelling expenses, I shall deem a satisfactory salary.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals / In Two Volumes, V...
8
My room, with attendance, only cost me three piastres per diem.
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
9
By then the per diem will probably look pretty good.
Secret of the seventh son
10
This was accomplished in fifty-five travelling days, twelve miles per diem on an average.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi...
11
Puskis went through the conversation about keeping his own per diem all over again.
The vaults
12
For several months our finds there averaged from three to five diamonds per diem.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
13
Oh, immortal soul, for one quarter of an hour per diem de-Popkinize thine immortality!
"My Novel" — Volume 09
14
Selectmen receive a sum per diem; constables, fees; school committeemen make out their own bills.
Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and...
15
I can just about afford the per diem, but even this small amount frightens me.
East of the sun
16
I lived very sparingly indeed; two shillings per diem paid for my food and tobacco.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
Translations for per diem
Spanish
al día
Catalan
per diem