Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

daily grind

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English

Syllables: dai-ly -grind
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.

Informal

Example Sentences

"As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more."
"“Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers."

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

daily grinds (plural)

Phrases

nose to the grindstone day in, day out nine to five

Frequently Paired Words

nose to the grindstone day in, day out nine to five

Questions

What does daily grind mean?: The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.

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