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biweekly

biweekly

3.6
Happens twice a week
  • adverb
  • /ˌbaɪˈwiːkli/
translation icon : dos veces por semana
  • The yoga class is scheduled biweekly, allowing participants to attend multiple sessions each week.

Examples

  • The team meets biweekly to discuss project updates and future plans.

  • Growth for developing decoders was detected with the biweekly NWF assessment, which is sensitive to growth and provided the data needed for an HLM analysis; whereas, differences were not seen on the TOWRE PDE, which was not administered biweekly and could not be analyzed through HLM.

    Academic text (2014)

  • She receives a biweekly newsletter with the latest industry news and tips.

Synonyms

semiweekly
vsbiweekly
3.7

Happening twice a week

means the same frequency but is a different lexical form

Surface Forms

biweekly positive

Morphology

biweekly = weekly (semi-transparent) = bi + week + ly

Clear morphological formation but the prefix 'bi-' is ambiguous in temporal expressions, so learners may interpret it as 'twice a week' rather than 'every two weeks'.

Etymology

Think of bi- 'two' plus weekly 'every week' to remember biweekly as an adverb meaning 'twice a week', for example when something happens two times in a single week.