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per diem

/per -dee-uhm, dahy-uhm/US // pər ˈdi əm, ˈdaɪ əm //

按日计费,按日计算,按天计费,按天计算

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : by the day; for each day.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : paid by the day.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a daily allowance, usually for living expenses while traveling in connection with one's work or being employed at a distance from one's home: a per diem for lawmakers while the legislature is in session.

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Examples

  • We do local staffing as well, but most of the time, the local nurses are already working with their local hospitals on a per diem basis or maybe they’re in their float pools.

  • Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

  • During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.

  • Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.

  • At least one child in CAR has been killed or gravely injured per day, and 10,000 have been recruited into militant groups.

  • Bitcoin began 2013 with a roaring price of $770 per unit, and businesses right and left were converting to the ethereal product.

  • I doubt that thirty persons per day are carried into or brought out of it by all public conveyances whatever.

  • The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.

  • At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.

  • In 1205 wheat was worth 12 pence per bushel, which was cheap, as there had been some years of famine previous thereto.

  • We did not talk much about the past at dinner, except—ah me, how bitterly we regretted our 10 per cent.