round-the-clock
24
3.9
- adjective
- /ˈraʊnd-ðə-ˈklɑk/
:
ininterrumpido
- The hospital provides round-the-clock care to all its patients.
- round-the-clock care
- round-the-clock vigil
- round-the-clock coverage
Examples
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Over half a dozen Spanish-language radio stations offer round-the-clock commentaries on events taking place just one hundred miles from Florida's shores.
Academic text (1998) -
The scientists who are working round the clock to find a vaccine.
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When they started the Village of the Year contest, she worked round the clock.
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And instead, I went into a hospital and had round-the-clock care.
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I want round-the-clock guards on all water sources.
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Whether it's 9 a.m. or 9 p.m., this airport experiences round-the-clock rush hour.
Blog text (18) -
Today, five years after his injury, Zack is in a wheelchair and needs round-the-clock care.
Academic text (2011) -
Well, I can reassure my honourable friend that Foreign Office staff are working round the clock, round weekends.
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You'll have round-the-clock care.
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Volunteer firefighters were on round-the-clock alert, and the congregations of fourteen churches prayed for snow.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
427
1.0
At all times during a stated period
97
3.9
Happening at all times, day and night
59
3.0
Happens all day and all night without stopping
42
1.3
Continuing without any stops or pauses
20
2.4
Available at any time, both during the day and at night
8
3.2
Happening all day and night without stopping
7
3.0
Happens all day and night without stopping
1
2.1
Open every hour of every day
Antonyms
How Continuous
24
3.9
740
1.0
386
1.0
476
1.0
438
2.0
13
6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Round-the-clock comes from the picture of a clock's hands moving all the way round; round means 'all around' and clock is the time instrument you look at every day. So round-the-clock means happening 'all day and all night' without stopping.