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[ kwawr-ter-lee ] / ˈkwɔr tər li / SEE SYNONYMS FOR quarterly ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveoccurring, done, paid, issued, etc., at the end of every quarter of a year: a quarterly report; quarterly interest. pertaining to or consisting of a quarter. noun, plural quar·ter·lies.a periodical issued every three months. adverbby quarters; once each quarter of a year: The bank pays interest quarterly. Heraldry. - with division into four quarters.
- in the four quarters of an escutcheon.
Origin of quarterlylate Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at quarter, -ly Words nearby quarterlyquarter horse, quarter-hour, quartering, quarterlife crisis, quarterlight, quarterly, quartermaster, Quartermaster Corps, quartermaster general, quarter-miler, quartern Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for quarterlyIf Gentleman's Quarterly comes by for a photo spread, Palmer won't have to put a single sock in a hamper. Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST This was the worst quarterly economic performance since the first quarter of 2009. How Obamacare Helped Crash the Economy|Daniel Gross|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST A bar chart showing quarterly GDP growth resembles the teeth of a saw, not a picket fence. The U.S. Economy Had a Hiccup, Not a Heart Attack, This Year|Daniel Gross|May 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Bernheimer is a well-known American fairy-tale writer, and Hunt is the editor of the Denver Quarterly. An Edward Hopper Novel?|The Daily Beast|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Its nominal charter was publishing, more or less quarterly, a humor magazine. Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon|Robert Sam Anson|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST A few months later the Quarterly followed in the same strain, but went on to preach a more questionable doctrine. Crabbe, (George)|Alfred Ainger Thereafter he devoted himself to writing, chiefly for the Quarterly Review, and to hunting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 1|Various I hope you will consider a quarterly or at least an annual in the near future. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930|Various Hints of a regular income, payable four times a year, have their weight; nay, often convert weekly into quarterly lodgings. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 7, 1841|Various In the country, quarterly communions had become the general rule. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century|Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
British Dictionary definitions for quarterly
adjectiveoccurring, done, paid, etc, at intervals of three months of, relating to, or consisting of a quarter noun plural -liesa periodical issued every three months adverbonce every three months heraldry into or in quartersa shield divided quarterly Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to quarterlyperiodically |