The act of working for daily wages, or the process of spending a day doing something.
From 'day' as a verb (to work by the day) + '-ing' suffix. Historically used to describe wage-labor work measured by the day rather than longer contracts.
Before hourly wages became standard, 'daying' was how casual laborers got paid—just showing up day after day hoping for work, which is why 'daywork' and 'daymen' were important categories in pre-industrial labor.
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