: a room (as in a hospital) equipped for relaxation and recreation
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In the dayroom, the card players murmur, the sleepers sleep.
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Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
The lawsuit states that this is the first time any jail staff had been in the dayroom in six hours.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 23 Feb. 2024
The dayroom, a smaller room also attached to the dorm, contained a handful of desks and one television to serve its sixty residents.
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july 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025
But the dayroom is largely unused. State regulations require jails to offer every person in custody at least 10 hours of weekly out-of-cell time — seven in a dayroom and three in a rec yard.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
The lawsuit states that this is the first time any jail staff had been in the dayroom in six hours.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 23 Feb. 2024
The dayroom, a smaller room also attached to the dorm, contained a handful of desks and one television to serve its sixty residents.
—Literary Hub
july 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025
But the dayroom is largely unused. State regulations require jails to offer every person in custody at least 10 hours of weekly out-of-cell time — seven in a dayroom and three in a rec yard.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for dayroom
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“Dayroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dayroom. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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