Quarterly
['kwɔːtəlɪ] or ['kwɔrtɚli]
Definition
(noun.) a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year).
(adj.) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter; 'quarterly report' .
(adv.) in three month intervals; 'interest is compounded quarterly'.
(adv.) in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon; 'two coats of arms borne quarterly'.
Checked by Karol--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
(a.) Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.
(n.) A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.
(adv.) By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly.
(adv.) In quarters, or quarterings; as, to bear arms quarterly; in four or more parts; -- said of a shield thus divided by lines drawn through it at right angles.
Edited by Benson
Examples
- If I had penned some _Quarterly_ cupidity, He would have gladly borne with its stupidity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It will be enough to say that I observed the terms of the bargain on my side, and that I enjoyed my comfortable income in return, paid quarterly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Your quarterly payment won't quite suit me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He could afford to make her some small allowance, and she might draw for it quarterly at a place in London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I possessed fifteen pounds, odd shillings, which I had saved from my quarterly allowance during several years. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Four times a year Miss Wirt entered this apartment to get her salary; and his daughters to receive their quarterly allowance. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Henry