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nouna time of need or emergency: saving money for a rainy day. Origin of rainy dayFirst recorded in 1570–80 OTHER WORDS FROM rainy dayrainy-day, adjectiveWords nearby rainy dayrainwash, rainwater, rainwater pipe, rainwear, rainy, rainy day, Rainy Lake, Raipur, Rais, raise, raise a hand against Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for rainy dayOthers are essentially pocketing the cash, stowing it in rainy-day funds or using it to cope with higher spending requirements. The Return of State Surpluses Could Point to More Growth to Come|Daniel Gross|April 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST Sometimes on the morrow of a rainy-day, a silk dress, mudded and wet, would be seen hanging out to dry upon this beam. Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo "The Rainy-Day Railroad," as it was nicknamed immediately, excited considerable hilarity at the state-house and in the newspapers. The Rainy Day Railroad War|Holman Day I have a workroom fixed in a corner of the attic where Master Jervie used to have his rainy-day playroom. Daddy Long-Legs|Jean Webster
There also she placed the very considerable sum of money which she had just won at baccarat, to join the rainy-day fund. Mammon and Co.|E. F. Benson No more unwelcome caller could have intruded on the homey, delicious, rainy-day seclusion of "Castle Cluny." The Reclaimers|Margaret Hill McCarter
British Dictionary definitions for rainy day
nouna future time of need, esp financial Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to rainy dayadversity, trough |