Weekly
['wiːklɪ] or ['wikli]
Definition
(noun.) a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year).
(adj.) of or occurring every seven days; 'a weekly visit'; 'weekly paper' .
Editor: Rudolf--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.
(a.) Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette.
(n.) A publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week.
(adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Hebdomadal, hebdomadary.
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Examples
- Mr Barretti was informed, that the weekly packet-boat from Lisbon brings, one week with another, more than ?50,000 in gold to England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Here is a weekly allowance, with a certain weight of coals, drops from the clouds upon me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She told no one, but concocted a 'thrilling tale', and boldly carried it herself to Mr. Dashwood, editor of the Weekly Volcano. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Many tons of pins are made in the United States weekly, and it is said that 20,000,000 pins a day are required to meet the demand. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is stated that the present output of the American factory of the Singer Company amounts to over 11,000 weekly, or more than half a million annually. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describing his virtues, his magnificence, his talents, and his good actions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- WEEKLY REPORT Meg--Good. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Since their recent return, our friend has yielded to a weekly visit, but that is the utmost. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- One factory in Birmingham, England, is said to produce about twelve hundred weekly, and Belgium shares in their manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The daily or weekly recompence which such labourers occasionally received from their masters, was evidently not the whole price of their labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- For the service he paid $25 weekly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The bills of the little household, which had been settled weekly, first fell into arrear. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The most extensive application of photo-lithography is in the reproduction of the Patent Office drawings, which amount to about 60,000 sheets weekly. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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