Meaning of de jour | Babel Free

Definitions

Contemporary or most recent; en vogue; trendy.

not-comparable, postpositional, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Foreign-policy chiefs deal most often with the hottest issue de jour, though they can get the attention of the president and other members of the government for other issues which they judge important.”

“They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.”

“When reading The Young Allies, it seems that Whitewash's purpose, besides representing the black community, is to get captured by the villain de jour and be saved by Bucky and the other Allies.”

CEFR level