day-to-day business

collocation in English

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day-to-day
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌdeɪ.təˈdeɪ/
us
/ˌdeɪ.təˈdeɪ/
happening every day as a regular part of your job ...
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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofday-to-dayandbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There are sudden splashes of colour amidday-to-daybusiness, but references to music or liturgy are frustratingly few and far between.
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In general, however, the government has limited undue influence on the revenue authority'sday-to-daybusiness, compared with its predecessor institutions.
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He cannot come for prior approval for everything he does in the course of hisday-to-daybusiness.
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Top officials were naturally concerned with theday-to-daybusinessand too little time was available for wider policy problems.
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While it remains a matter for the devolved government to take much of the strategy forward, theday-to-daybusinessof government must go on.
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Compulsory competitive tendering will also challenge monopoly control of council housing management, bringing private sector expertise into theday-to-daybusinessof running council estates.
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Women who fear for their safety can be restricted in going about theirday-to-daybusiness.
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Without the badge, many people would be unable to go about theirday-to-daybusiness.
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This is no case of engaging in difficult operations all over the world; it is an ordinaryday-to-daybusinessconducted in this country.
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They cannot go to bed at night and cannot go about their ordinaryday-to-daybusiness.
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How, after all, could we carry out ourday-to-daybusinessif on occasions the usual channels did not operate?
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Unfortunately, their contact withday-to-daybusinessis minimal.
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It is an imposition on personal liberty that people, and particularly children, should be forced to see such matter while going about theirday-to-daybusiness.
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That was quite apart from the direct contact that one had inday-to-daybusinessthe whole time.
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I have no problem with schools having internal control of the running of theirday-to-daybusiness.
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With his inside knowledge, he was able to describe the immense complexities ofday-to-daybusiness.
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They are too busy trying to make a turn on theirday-to-daybusiness.
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I feel a part of history, as well as a part of a successfulday-to-daybusiness.
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