All-day
taking up, extending through, lasting for, or occurring continually during a day, especially the hours of daylight; daylong:
an all-day tour of the city; an all-day lollipop.
Contemporary Examples
The Simpsons is really experiencing this pop culture moment of late, with the all-day FXX marathon.
Harry Shearer on Being Nixon, ‘The Simpsons Movie’ Sequel, and Why Obama Should Return His Nobel Marlow Stern October 20, 2014
Today’s all-day conference taking a “second look” shows the power of the right in even getting such a question on the table.
Was the New Deal a Bust? Jeff Madrick March 29, 2009
Sweet Basil, which has been around since 1977, serves amazingly fresh lunch and dinners, and has all-day bar hours.
Vail, Colorado: Skier’s Paradise Jolie Hunt January 14, 2011
Historical Examples
You can take the boys and spring wagon and have an all-day picnic.
Chicken Little Jane on the Big John Lily Munsell Ritchie
It promised to be an all-day job, and a clumsy one at the best.
The Huntress Hulbert Footner
It was an all-day journey with a drive of twenty miles to the railway.
Old Plantation Days Mrs. N. B. De Saussure
It’s an all-day process of the stronger annihilating the weaker.
Her Father’s Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter
So we had an all-day wait near the primitive little railway station.
Inca Land Hiram Bingham
An all-day meeting is to be held there, and I am to preach in the morning.
The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick
Kyoto may be reached by a short ride from Kobe, but from Tokio it is an all-day trip of twelve hours by express train.
The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch
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covering or applying to all; all-inclusive; blanket: an all-embracing definition. Historical Examples They have been the first to appreciate and understand the all-embracing duties of the Sanitary Commission. Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 Various Even food for the horse was included in that all-embracing rent. Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph C. Lincoln […]
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- All-expense
including all necessary or usual expenses, as the full cost of a trip, tour, or the like: a two-week all-expense tour of Mexico. Historical Examples A 3-day all-expense trip to Bearpaw Meadow and surroundings can be arranged. Sequoia [California] National Park United States Department of the Interior all-expense, including automobile transportation, four meals and one […]