Meaning of match day | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The day when graduating medical-school students find out where they will serve as residents.
2. The day on which a sporting event takes place.

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Examples

“On match day, at exactly noon, we would each receive a white envelope with a single piece of paper listing the hospital and program where we would spend the next several years.”

“The fourth-year medical students are getting anxious. It's getting close to match day. In a few weeks they will find out where they're going to spend the next several years of training.”

“For a player to perform, his body machinery must be continually fuelled, oiled and checked long before the first whistle. Match day strategies involving the consumption of large amounts of food deemed to have a beneficial content with regard to performance should therefore not be used as a substitute for a poor diet across the preceding days or weeks.”

“The station will be adjacent to Millwall Football Club's ground and would help ease the burden of match-day crowds.”

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