weeklyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈwiːkli/, U.S.

/ˈwikli/

Forms: see week n. and -ly suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 weekalie, pre-1700 woulkie (perhaps transmission error).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: week n., -ly suffix¹.

Etymology: < week n. + -ly suffix¹. Compare Dutch †weekelijk (16th cent.), Middle High German wochelich, wochenlich (compare German wöchentlich). In use as noun probably after daily n.

A. adj. (usually attributive).

a. Done, occurring, or happening once a week or every week; paid or given once a week or every week. Also (esp. of a newspaper, magazine, etc.): published once a week (cf. sense B.).Cf. also weekly bill, variant of bill of mortality n. at bill n.³ Compounds 1.

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the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > occurring a specific number of times a week

weekly1489

hebdomadary1625

hebdomaticala1659

hebdomadal1711

septimanal1786

tri-weekly1832

semi-weekly1833

bi-weekly1885

1489 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 57 In the deliuering and paying of the oulkly penny to God and to Sanct Jhone.

1525 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1527, 97 The forsaid wolklie penny and halpeny salbe payit ilk Setterday.

1576–7 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 582 His releif of the said owlklie wageis as accordis.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xix. 29 The Iewes haue alwaies had their weekely readings of the law of Moses.

1621 (title) Corante: or weekely newes from Italy, Germany, [etc.].

1681 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 16 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 With a weekly markett and two free faires yearly.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 289. ¶2 The use I make of the above-mentioned Weekly Paper.

1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 14 The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread.

a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1812) II. xxiii. 227 A public weekly assertion of the two first articles in our Creed.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 390 He gathered materials for weekly epistles destined to enlighten some county town.

1899 S. R. Gardiner O. Cromwell vi. 192 He found repose in a weekly visit to Hampton Court.

1967 G. Jenkin Two Years Bardunyah Station 73 Salaried people on the staff of a station, as distinct from the stockmen and others on a weekly wage.

1992 Utne Reader July 167/1 Advertising revenues declined in daily newspapers..while weekly papers..posted a 2.1 percent gain.

2001 Sun (Nexis) 15 May I was pleased to read in The Sun that Lottery chiefs are planning a third weekly draw.

b. Of a person: performing some action, or employed in some capacity, once a week; (also) contracted by the week.

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the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > occurring a specific number of times a week > performing some action once a week

weekly1608

1608 Merry Deuill of Edmonton sig. D4 The Lady prioresse hath giuen me ghostly counsell with hir blessing. And how say yee boyes, If I be chose the weekely visitor?

1712 M. Prior Extempore Invit. 1 Our Weekly Friends Tomorrow meet At Matthew's Palace.

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. i. 155 They change their weekly Barber.

1831 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Feb. 74 The expense of employing a weekly collector is defrayed by a subscription..,—the time occupied in collecting is two days in the beginning of each week.

1866 E. W. Cox Rep. Cases Magistrates, Munic., & Parochial Law 3 404/2 A farm bailiff was engaged as weekly servant at 14s. per week.

1892 A. Fuller Pratt Portraits ix. 208 He was a weekly visitor at their house. He usually came on Saturday evening.

1946 Billboard 4 May 34/3 Minimum wages for casual and intermittent weekly employees in each category..are also laid down.

2010 H. McKenzie Love Smiles v. 53 He had a weekly cleaner who came in on a Friday.

2. Of or relating to the week, in its condition as a unit of time specified in a calendar; of or relating to the days of the week, or to the working days of the week.

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the world > time > period > a week > [adjective]

weekly1563

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Of Place & Time of Prayer i. 138 That vpon the Sabboth day..they shoulde ceasse from all weekely and workeday labour.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. 175 Hengists noble heyres; their Idols that to raise Heere put their German names vpon our weekly daies.

1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 7 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. The Sun is the Clock to the Seamen in Spitzbergen, for else they would live without order, and mistake in the usual seven weekly days.

?1756 Mem. Gen. Blakeney 8 The young Officers..found him at that Study, in which..he usually spent the Morning of his Weekly-Days, for he always went to Church on Sunday.

1814 1st Rep. Soc. Edinb. Suppression of Beggars 7 Every offence throughout the week..shall be regularly marked in the weekly calendar.

1870 J. P. Root Root Geneal. Rec. 93 There is an endowed Sunday-school, and also a weekly school.

1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 30 §2 Entitled..to receive payments..at weekly or other prescribed intervals.

1938 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 17 Nov. 8/2 On Sundays lay aside those weekly clothes and dress up.

1998 J. F. Peters Life among Yanomami (2001) iii. 71 They mark the passing days with knots in a string, though some now follow the weekly days of the calendar.

3. Measured or assessed according to periods of a week.

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1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. f. 131^v 'Twas well the weekly number of the dead, By Gods meere mercy, was diminished.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 67 His Majesties weekly expence for his House borne, out of such Monies as could be borrow'd.

1752 Considerations Case of Bakers in Dublin 17 The weekly Consumption of Wheat in Dublin..is 3000 Barrels.

1816 Q. Rev. Apr. 202 The journalist poisons the minds of the populace with his weekly dose of sedition.

1866 J. Watts Facts Cotton Famine xix. 362 The weekly consumption of cotton being twenty-six thousand five hundred..bales.

1918 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 4 Jan. 117/2 The weekly output of metal per furnace was less than half a ton.

1975 New Scientist 13 Feb. 366/1 The results showed a 43 per cent difference in mean weekly rainfall.

2002 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 15 June 2348/3 The inflation data is available on a weekly basis with a two-week lag.

B. n.

A newspaper, periodical, or magazine published once a week.Often opposed to daily n. 1, monthly n. 2.

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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > weekly

weekly1825

newsweekly1856

1825 Bell's Life in London 11 Dec. 399/2 Would it not have been more creditable to the conductor of this respectably monthly, instead of making a sweeping charge against the weeklies, to have fairly acknowledged that there is a third weekly sporting paper, which he well knows is the ‘top of the tree’.

1845 C. Dickens Let. ?26 July (1977) IV. 337 A notion..has occurred to me in connection with our abandoned little weekly.

1863 Morning Star 3 Jan. To-day a new literary Weekly of high pretensions begins its existence.

1914 in Civil Service Year Bk. (1916) 294 They take 6 penny daily papers and 3 halfpenny ones; 3 weeklies costing 3d. each and 5 weeklies costing 6d. each.

1988 N.Y. Mag. 5 Dec. 42/2 The big news-magazine story of 1988 is the birth of a new weekly that might be called Convergence, the result of the imploded union of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News.

2000 Sci. Fiction Chron. Aug. 24/2 All the newspapers in your home county, including dailies, weeklies, freebie ‘entertainment’ papers, etc.

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† weekly accounts (also weekly accompts) Nautical slang Obsolete (a name given to) the small square white patches on each side of a midshipman's collar.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > naval insignia

swab1793

weekly accounts1805

watch mark1860

killick1915

1805 Public Characters xxviii. 501 A young man who hopes one day to exchange his blue coat and ‘weekly accounts’, for the dress of a commander in chief.

1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs I. 69 The midshipmen proceeded to cut off the weekly accompts from the coat I had on.

1852 C. Dickens Bleak House (1853) xvii. 162 You never heard them called the young gentlemen, my dears, and probably would not understand allusions to their pipeclaying their weekly accounts.

weekly boarder n. a school pupil who boards during the week and returns home at weekends.

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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > boarder

boarder1530

parlour boarder1768

weekly boarder1800

resident1843

ressie1982

1800 Portsmouth Tel. 27 Jan. Board, Washing, and Education, per ann. £18 18 0... Weekly Boarders £16.16. 0.

1841 C. Dickens Let. 6 Mar. (1969) II. 225 I will send [him] as a weekly boarder to the best school I can find in the place... I say weekly boarder, because I should wish the boy..to be at home from Saturday night to Monday Morning.

1973 J. Mann Only Security i. 9 It had a school where Clovis might be a weekly boarder.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 7 Dec. 15/1 In one school for weekly boarders the inspectors found ‘extremely bleak’ rooms which the pupils were not allowed to personalise.

weekly boat n. now historical a boat, esp. a coasting vessel, on which the crew is paid by the week; cf. monthly boat n. at monthly adj. and n. Compounds.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > vessel according to payment or rations of crew

monthly ship1871

weekly boat1888

monthly boat1898

pound and pinter1938

1888 Leeds Mercury 31 Mar. 3/1 Thirty shillin's a week in a weekly boat and find your own grub; that's about the ornery run of things.

1927 F. H. Shaw Knocking Around 4 She was a weekly boat, where the crew provided their own food.

1995 D. Lawless in D. Frost Ethnic Labour & Brit. Imperial Trade 43 Arab boarding house masters were able to find work on weekly boats sailing to northern France and the Low Countries, the so-called ‘Home and Coasting Trades’.

weekly man n. Australian (now historical and rare) an additional worker employed on a temporary basis, for one or more weeks.

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1849 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser 22 Sept. For yearly men, for shepherds and hutkeepers, there is £20 freely given, weekly men for lambing down, are receiving from 9s to 11s.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xx Filling up the station with a lot of weekly men.

1918 T. A. Coghlan Labour & Industry in Austral. III. vi. vi. 1501 Wharf labourers..had their wages reduced in June 1892 to 1s. per hour, and the weekly men who had received 45s. per week were reduced to 40s.

weekly tenancy n. a tenancy agreement for which rent must be paid once a week; esp. one in which the agreement may be ended with one week's notice.

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1822 A. Hammond in Comyns's Digest Laws Eng. (ed. 5) V. 558 A weekly tenancy is inferred from the weekly payment of rent.

1838 P. B. Leigh Abridgm. Law of Nisi Prius II. xi. 862 In the case of an ordinary weekly tenancy, a week's notice to quit is not implied as part of the contract, unless there be a usage to that effect; but in absence of such usage, a weekly tenant who enters on a fresh week, may be bound to continue until the expiration of that week, or pay the week's rent.

1926 Econ. Jrnl. 36 153 Two small rooms.., which he had taken on a weekly tenancy more than fifty years ago and had occupied ever since.

2000 B. Perrins Understanding Land Law (ed. 3) xi. 124 A weekly rent may result in an implied weekly tenancy; a monthly rent, a monthly tenancy.

weekly tenant n. a tenant required to pay rent once a week; esp. one who is obliged to vacate the property on one week's notice.

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1750 Gen. Advertiser 15 Dec. Matthew Wenman was originally admitted by me as a Weekly Tenant, at an advanced Rent in respect to the Trade and Furniture.

1795 London Packet 9 Feb. William Brander of Cripplegate, being only a weekly tenant, was not deemed eligible to serve the office of Constable.

1856 Times 29 Nov. 5/1 (advt.) Letting to weekly tenants..shows a profit income of £112 a year.

2002 M. A. Hallenborg New York Tenants' Rights xvi. 18/2 The landlord must serve a one-month termination notice, unless you are a weekly tenant, in which case the landlord must serve you with a seven-day termination notice.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	weekly
释义	weeklyadj.n. Brit. /ˈwiːkli/, U.S. /ˈwikli/ Forms: see week n. and -ly suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 weekalie, pre-1700 woulkie (perhaps transmission error). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: week n., -ly suffix¹. Etymology: < week n. + -ly suffix¹. Compare Dutch †weekelijk (16th cent.), Middle High German wochelich, wochenlich (compare German wöchentlich). In use as noun probably after daily n. A. adj. (usually attributive). 1. a. Done, occurring, or happening once a week or every week; paid or given once a week or every week. Also (esp. of a newspaper, magazine, etc.): published once a week (cf. sense B.).Cf. also weekly bill, variant of bill of mortality n. at bill n.³ Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > occurring a specific number of times a week weekly1489 hebdomadary1625 hebdomaticala1659 hebdomadal1711 septimanal1786 tri-weekly1832 semi-weekly1833 bi-weekly1885 1489 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 57 In the deliuering and paying of the oulkly penny to God and to Sanct Jhone. 1525 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1527, 97 The forsaid wolklie penny and halpeny salbe payit ilk Setterday. 1576–7 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 582 His releif of the said owlklie wageis as accordis. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xix. 29 The Iewes haue alwaies had their weekely readings of the law of Moses. 1621 (title) Corante: or weekely newes from Italy, Germany, [etc.]. 1681 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 16 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 With a weekly markett and two free faires yearly. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 289. ¶2 The use I make of the above-mentioned Weekly Paper. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 14 The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread. a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1812) II. xxiii. 227 A public weekly assertion of the two first articles in our Creed. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 390 He gathered materials for weekly epistles destined to enlighten some county town. 1899 S. R. Gardiner O. Cromwell vi. 192 He found repose in a weekly visit to Hampton Court. 1967 G. Jenkin Two Years Bardunyah Station 73 Salaried people on the staff of a station, as distinct from the stockmen and others on a weekly wage. 1992 Utne Reader July 167/1 Advertising revenues declined in daily newspapers..while weekly papers..posted a 2.1 percent gain. 2001 Sun (Nexis) 15 May I was pleased to read in The Sun that Lottery chiefs are planning a third weekly draw. b. Of a person: performing some action, or employed in some capacity, once a week; (also) contracted by the week. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > occurring a specific number of times a week > performing some action once a week weekly1608 1608 Merry Deuill of Edmonton sig. D4 The Lady prioresse hath giuen me ghostly counsell with hir blessing. And how say yee boyes, If I be chose the weekely visitor? 1712 M. Prior Extempore Invit. 1 Our Weekly Friends Tomorrow meet At Matthew's Palace. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. i. 155 They change their weekly Barber. 1831 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Feb. 74 The expense of employing a weekly collector is defrayed by a subscription..,—the time occupied in collecting is two days in the beginning of each week. 1866 E. W. Cox Rep. Cases Magistrates, Munic., & Parochial Law 3 404/2 A farm bailiff was engaged as weekly servant at 14s. per week. 1892 A. Fuller Pratt Portraits ix. 208 He was a weekly visitor at their house. He usually came on Saturday evening. 1946 Billboard 4 May 34/3 Minimum wages for casual and intermittent weekly employees in each category..are also laid down. 2010 H. McKenzie Love Smiles v. 53 He had a weekly cleaner who came in on a Friday. 2. Of or relating to the week, in its condition as a unit of time specified in a calendar; of or relating to the days of the week, or to the working days of the week. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] weekly1563 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Of Place & Time of Prayer i. 138 That vpon the Sabboth day..they shoulde ceasse from all weekely and workeday labour. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. 175 Hengists noble heyres; their Idols that to raise Heere put their German names vpon our weekly daies. 1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 7 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. The Sun is the Clock to the Seamen in Spitzbergen, for else they would live without order, and mistake in the usual seven weekly days. ?1756 Mem. Gen. Blakeney 8 The young Officers..found him at that Study, in which..he usually spent the Morning of his Weekly-Days, for he always went to Church on Sunday. 1814 1st Rep. Soc. Edinb. Suppression of Beggars 7 Every offence throughout the week..shall be regularly marked in the weekly calendar. 1870 J. P. Root Root Geneal. Rec. 93 There is an endowed Sunday-school, and also a weekly school. 1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 30 §2 Entitled..to receive payments..at weekly or other prescribed intervals. 1938 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 17 Nov. 8/2 On Sundays lay aside those weekly clothes and dress up. 1998 J. F. Peters Life among Yanomami (2001) iii. 71 They mark the passing days with knots in a string, though some now follow the weekly days of the calendar. 3. Measured or assessed according to periods of a week. ΚΠ 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. f. 131^v 'Twas well the weekly number of the dead, By Gods meere mercy, was diminished. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 67 His Majesties weekly expence for his House borne, out of such Monies as could be borrow'd. 1752 Considerations Case of Bakers in Dublin 17 The weekly Consumption of Wheat in Dublin..is 3000 Barrels. 1816 Q. Rev. Apr. 202 The journalist poisons the minds of the populace with his weekly dose of sedition. 1866 J. Watts Facts Cotton Famine xix. 362 The weekly consumption of cotton being twenty-six thousand five hundred..bales. 1918 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 4 Jan. 117/2 The weekly output of metal per furnace was less than half a ton. 1975 New Scientist 13 Feb. 366/1 The results showed a 43 per cent difference in mean weekly rainfall. 2002 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 15 June 2348/3 The inflation data is available on a weekly basis with a two-week lag. B. n. A newspaper, periodical, or magazine published once a week.Often opposed to daily n. 1, monthly n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > weekly weekly1825 newsweekly1856 1825 Bell's Life in London 11 Dec. 399/2 Would it not have been more creditable to the conductor of this respectably monthly, instead of making a sweeping charge against the weeklies, to have fairly acknowledged that there is a third weekly sporting paper, which he well knows is the ‘top of the tree’. 1845 C. Dickens Let. ?26 July (1977) IV. 337 A notion..has occurred to me in connection with our abandoned little weekly. 1863 Morning Star 3 Jan. To-day a new literary Weekly of high pretensions begins its existence. 1914 in Civil Service Year Bk. (1916) 294 They take 6 penny daily papers and 3 halfpenny ones; 3 weeklies costing 3d. each and 5 weeklies costing 6d. each. 1988 N.Y. Mag. 5 Dec. 42/2 The big news-magazine story of 1988 is the birth of a new weekly that might be called Convergence, the result of the imploded union of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News. 2000 Sci. Fiction Chron. Aug. 24/2 All the newspapers in your home county, including dailies, weeklies, freebie ‘entertainment’ papers, etc. Compounds † weekly accounts (also weekly accompts) Nautical slang Obsolete (a name given to) the small square white patches on each side of a midshipman's collar. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > naval insignia swab1793 weekly accounts1805 watch mark1860 killick1915 1805 Public Characters xxviii. 501 A young man who hopes one day to exchange his blue coat and ‘weekly accounts’, for the dress of a commander in chief. 1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs I. 69 The midshipmen proceeded to cut off the weekly accompts from the coat I had on. 1852 C. Dickens Bleak House (1853) xvii. 162 You never heard them called the young gentlemen, my dears, and probably would not understand allusions to their pipeclaying their weekly accounts. weekly boarder n. a school pupil who boards during the week and returns home at weekends. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > boarder boarder1530 parlour boarder1768 weekly boarder1800 resident1843 ressie1982 1800 Portsmouth Tel. 27 Jan. Board, Washing, and Education, per ann. £18 18 0... Weekly Boarders £16.16. 0. 1841 C. Dickens Let. 6 Mar. (1969) II. 225 I will send [him] as a weekly boarder to the best school I can find in the place... I say weekly boarder, because I should wish the boy..to be at home from Saturday night to Monday Morning. 1973 J. Mann Only Security i. 9 It had a school where Clovis might be a weekly boarder. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 7 Dec. 15/1 In one school for weekly boarders the inspectors found ‘extremely bleak’ rooms which the pupils were not allowed to personalise. weekly boat n. now historical a boat, esp. a coasting vessel, on which the crew is paid by the week; cf. monthly boat n. at monthly adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > vessel according to payment or rations of crew monthly ship1871 weekly boat1888 monthly boat1898 pound and pinter1938 1888 Leeds Mercury 31 Mar. 3/1 Thirty shillin's a week in a weekly boat and find your own grub; that's about the ornery run of things. 1927 F. H. Shaw Knocking Around 4 She was a weekly boat, where the crew provided their own food. 1995 D. Lawless in D. Frost Ethnic Labour & Brit. Imperial Trade 43 Arab boarding house masters were able to find work on weekly boats sailing to northern France and the Low Countries, the so-called ‘Home and Coasting Trades’. weekly man n. Australian (now historical and rare) an additional worker employed on a temporary basis, for one or more weeks. ΚΠ 1849 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser 22 Sept. For yearly men, for shepherds and hutkeepers, there is £20 freely given, weekly men for lambing down, are receiving from 9s to 11s. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xx Filling up the station with a lot of weekly men. 1918 T. A. Coghlan Labour & Industry in Austral. III. vi. vi. 1501 Wharf labourers..had their wages reduced in June 1892 to 1s. per hour, and the weekly men who had received 45s. per week were reduced to 40s. weekly tenancy n. a tenancy agreement for which rent must be paid once a week; esp. one in which the agreement may be ended with one week's notice. ΚΠ 1822 A. Hammond in Comyns's Digest Laws Eng. (ed. 5) V. 558 A weekly tenancy is inferred from the weekly payment of rent. 1838 P. B. Leigh Abridgm. Law of Nisi Prius II. xi. 862 In the case of an ordinary weekly tenancy, a week's notice to quit is not implied as part of the contract, unless there be a usage to that effect; but in absence of such usage, a weekly tenant who enters on a fresh week, may be bound to continue until the expiration of that week, or pay the week's rent. 1926 Econ. Jrnl. 36 153 Two small rooms.., which he had taken on a weekly tenancy more than fifty years ago and had occupied ever since. 2000 B. Perrins Understanding Land Law (ed. 3) xi. 124 A weekly rent may result in an implied weekly tenancy; a monthly rent, a monthly tenancy. weekly tenant n. a tenant required to pay rent once a week; esp. one who is obliged to vacate the property on one week's notice. ΚΠ 1750 Gen. Advertiser 15 Dec. Matthew Wenman was originally admitted by me as a Weekly Tenant, at an advanced Rent in respect to the Trade and Furniture. 1795 London Packet 9 Feb. William Brander of Cripplegate, being only a weekly tenant, was not deemed eligible to serve the office of Constable. 1856 Times 29 Nov. 5/1 (advt.) Letting to weekly tenants..shows a profit income of £112 a year. 2002 M. A. Hallenborg New York Tenants' Rights xvi. 18/2 The landlord must serve a one-month termination notice, unless you are a weekly tenant, in which case the landlord must serve you with a seven-day termination notice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). weeklyadv. Brit. /ˈwiːkli/, U.S. /ˈwikli/ Forms: see week n. and -ly suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: week n., -ly suffix². Etymology: < week n. + -ly suffix². Compare Middle Dutch wekeliken, wekelijcs (Dutch wekelijks), Middle Low German wekeliken, wekelikes, Middle High German wochelīche, wochenlīche (compare German wöchentlich). Every week; in every seven-day period; spec. once a week. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > specific number of times a week seven dayseOE a-weekOE weekly1403 hebdomadally1816 tri-weekly1832 week-long1847 1403 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 51 Spalderlings weekly. 1416 in G. Hadley New & Compl. Hist. Kingston-upon-Hull (1788) 746 Yay wylle yat ye prayer bell be ronghen at sex atte clok..wekely by a brodyr or syster of ye same Maisendew. 1474 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 29 It is statut..that the said penny be rasit wolkly on the Monundaye. 1540 in Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) II. 378/1 That þair be wokly thre market dais for selling of breid within the said toune. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxij The Legates sat wekely, & euery daie were argumentes on bothe partes and nothyng els doen. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxx. 427 There was one Priest alone resident continually, the which they changed weekely. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1665 (1955) III. 417 There perishing now neere ten-thousand poore Creatures weekely. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 140 As these Persons are oblig'd to perform the Communion Service..in their turns Weekly, they are sometimes called Hebdomadal Canons. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 191 The petty constables visit weekly the houses in their respective constablewicks. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. xviii. 370 An acute Gallegan..who gave me weekly a faithful account of the copies sold. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xv. 142 You had arranged for her [sc. a governess] to come here two or three days weekly. 1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) vii. 85 We had two picture houses in our town and the picture was changed twice weekly. 1995 Methodist Recorder 3 Aug. 9/5 A small Bible study group now meets weekly. 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weeklyadv.