yesterday
US /ˈjɛstɚˌdeɪ/
adverb, noun Foundation · A2 Đời sống hằng ngày
Definition
on the day preceding today
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The package I ordered yesterday arrived this morning.
Collocations
- Easy see you yesterday afternoonto see you yesterday afternoon, meaning to perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- Medium review minutes of yesterday's emergency meetingto inspect or evaluate formally regarding minutes of yesterday's emergency meeting
- Hard lessons of yesterday applied to modern crisesdescribing lessons of yesterday applied to modern crises (a unit of instruction)
- Very Hard not born yesterday to fall for transparent deceitsdescribing not born yesterday to fall for transparent deceits (negation of a word or group of words)
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