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weekly

weekly

25 1.0
Once every week
  • adverb
  • /ˈwiːkli/
translation icon : semanalmente
  • For example, 74 percent of all student teachers indicated they interacted weekly with their university supervisor.
  • meet weekly
  • twice weekly
  • three times weekly

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Examples

  • Again, this is one of the dishes that we eat on a weekly basis.

  • Now, I want you to report to your probation officer weekly and pay your fine on time.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Oh, man, on a weekly basis, it's hard.

  • I say it weekly and it's still funny.

  • I saw her almost weekly.

  • You want answers, so we get together weekly, and we ask the questions that will lead you to your answers.

  • Running records were scheduled to be administered weekly as a way of monitoring their progress within the program.

    Academic text (2015)
  • I probably shouldn't eat out on a weekly basis quite as much.

  • Interactions occurred weekly and ranged in duration from 45 minutes to 2 hours.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I attend a yoga class weekly to improve my flexibility.

Synonyms

every week
vsweekly
263 1.0

Once each week

is the concise adjectival form that denotes the same regular timing
each week
vsweekly
85 1.0

Happens once every week

is the single-word neutral form commonly used to indicate this recurrence
week after week
vsweekly
15 1.0

Happening many weeks in a row

happens each seven day period but does not stress long continuous repetition
week by week
vsweekly
4 1.1

Happening every week and changing slowly

occurs on a seven day schedule without implying ongoing change
week in, week out
vsweekly
  • Informal
2 4.1

Happens every week in the same way for a long time

occurs once in each seven day period without stressing unchanging routine
wkly
vsweekly
6.3

Once every week

means the same but appears in full nonabbreviated format
hebdomadally
vsweekly
  • Archaic
9.9

Happens every week

is the neutral everyday term rather than this specialised variant

How Often

hourly
11 1.0
daily
1.0
weekly
25 1.0
sometimes
1.0
rarely
539 1.0
never
1.0

Surface Forms

weekly positive

Morphology

weekly = week (transparent) = week + ly

Clear suffixation of 'week' with '-ly', producing the regular adverbial sense 'once a week'.

Etymology

Weekly as an adverb uses the same parts, week ('seven days') and -ly, to mean 'every week'. So when you do something weekly, you do it once each week.