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daylight saving
or daylight savings
noun
- the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of daylight saving1
First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences
A hyphen is part of the common spelling: daylight-saving time.
From The Daily Beast
"I'm wondering about this daylight-saving business," she said.
From Project Gutenberg
By nine, the last remnant of the long twilight, a collaboration of midsummer with daylight-saving, had disappeared.
From Project Gutenberg
We initiated a daylight-saving system on this day by putting forward the clock one hour.
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Our unparliamentary correspondent states that the Daylight-Saving Scheme had a narrow escape.
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There is daylight-saving in Germany, which made the rising one hour earlier, and the other end of the day was always the "dark."
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