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Definition: Quarterly |
QuarterlyAdjective1. Of or relating to or consisting of a quarter; "quarterly report". Adverb1. In diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon; "two coats of arms borne quarterly". 2. In three month intervals; "interest is compounded quarterly". Noun1. A periodical that is published every quarter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quarterly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: QuarterlySynonym: every quarter (adv). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: quarterlies (meteorology & standardspublishing & graphic artslanguage, publishing & graphic arts). |
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Crosswords: Quarterly |
| English words defined with "quarterly": dividend ♦ love feast ♦ Quarterage, Quarterlies ♦ Trimestrial. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "quarterly": 10-Q, 10-Q report ♦ Amdahl Corporation, Amphigouri, Apple Computer, Inc. ♦ call report, Compaq Computer Corporation, Computer Associates, Cray Research, Inc. ♦ Data General, debt service, Destructives, Digital Equipment Corporation ♦ EU 15 aggregate, EUR 11 aggregate, EUR 11 total, EUR 15 total ♦ form 10Q, Friar John ♦ Gateway 2000 ♦ Hewlett-Packard, History of Croyland Abbey, HOSS ♦ Information Resource Management, Inprise Corporation, Intel Corporation, Internet Society ♦ Journal ♦ Lotus Development Corporation ♦ Microsoft Corporation, Moses' Rod, Motorola, Inc. ♦ National Snow and Ice Data Center ♦ QAS ♦ RMA ♦ Silicon Graphics, Inc., SORAR, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ♦ Tandem Computers, triple-witching hour ♦ Uniform Thrift Performance Report, Unisys Corporation ♦ Wang Laboratories. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Quarterly Review. Group of nurses. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | ADEAR publishes Connections, a quarterly newsletter for professionals. (references) | |
BPAA publishes a self-titled quarterly newsletter that helps readers stay informed of updated information and new forms of treatment. (references) | ||
It publishes a fact sheet describing the Foundation and a quarterly newsletter containing information on research advances, questions and answers from readers, and advice on coping with tremor. (references) | ||
Business | BTA prepares a quarterly newsletter and mails it to targeted individuals, media and travel trade. (references) | |
Members of the Singapore Retailers Association receive the SRA's quarterly publication "The Retailer" and a monthly newsletter. (references) | ||
Maintaining a good sales profile in Saudi Arabia also requires sending technically competent engineering/marketing representatives to the country on at least a quarterly basis. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Slovenia | Religious communities must register with the Government's Office for Religious Communities if they wish to be registered as legal entities, and registration entitles such groups to value added tax rebates on a quarterly basis. (references) |
Economic History | Austria | All listed companies are required to publish quarterly reports. (references) |
Belgium | These EITO figures are confirmed by companies' first quarterly results. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | On a quarterly basis, the ICRC distributes basic hygiene supplies to the prisons. (references) |
Djibouti | The ICRC regional representative, who is based in Nairobi, makes quarterly visits. (references) | |
Djibouti | An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate from Kenya made quarterly visits to the main prison. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Suriname | The meeting resulted in a promise of quarterly meetings to monitor the implementation of the native land rights portion of the 1992 peace accords; however, at year's end neither the quarterly meetings nor the implementation had occurred. (references) |
Political Economy | EGYPT | The government collects sales tax from merchants either monthly or quarterly, depending upon turnover. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | According to the most recent quarterly estimates, the Philippines' recorded external debt, based on foreign credits approved or registered with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, stood at $50.9 billion as of end-June 2001, lower by 2.2 percent ($1.2 billion) from end-2000 and lower by 2.4 percent ($1.3 billion) year-on-year. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Both Ukrainian and foreign entities pay their taxes on a quarterly basis. (references) |
Peru | The amount is adjusted quarterly on the basis of the wholesale price index. (references) | |
Ukraine | Corporate taxpayers are required to file quarterly declarations and make monthly payments on the basis of the actual taxable income earned in the previous month. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | All water customers are billed on a quarterly basis. (references) |
Egypt | Rental payments are usually made quarterly in advance, and on rare occasions annually in advance. (references) | |
Chad | Fidafrica publishes a guide for investors and a quarterly information report on Chadian legal, fiscal, and commercial issues. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Lesotho | There are statutory prohibitions against the employment of minors in commercial, industrial, or nonfamily enterprises involving hazardous or dangerous working conditions, and although enforcement of prohibitions was very lax in previous years, the Ministry of Labor and Employment's Inspectorate was staffed adequately and conducted quarterly inspections during the year. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I am also transmitting herewith the Fifth Quarterly Report of the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Quarterly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.76% of the time. "Quarterly" is used about 394 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50.76% | 200 | 21,580 |
| Adverb (general) | 24.11% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.51% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.61% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Total | 100.00% | 394 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "quarterly": quarterly apparel survey ♦ quarterly magazine. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "quarterly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trimestral, tremujor (quarter, trimester), i tremuajshëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فصليا, فصلي (terminal), كل ثلاثة شهور, مجلة فصلية, مجلة تصدر كل ثلاثة شهور. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тримесечно списание, тримесечен, веднъж на тримесечие. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 季度. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kvartálnì, kvartální, ètvrtletník, ètvrtletnì (terminally), ètvrtletní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kvartalstidsskrift, kvartalsskrift. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kwartaalblad, driemaandelijks. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | neljännesvuosittain ilmestyvä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trimestriel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vierteljährlich (trimester). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριμηνιαία επιθεώρηση, τριμηνιαίοσ, τριμηνιαίο, τρίμηνοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אחת לשלוש" חו"שים, כל רבע ש ", רבעון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | negyedévi (terminal), negyedévenkénti folyóirat, negyedévenként (terminally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trimestrale (three-month). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 季刊 , 四季 , クーロン力 (car horn, Chrysler, Clark, classic, classic car, classic life, classic races, classical, classicism, clerk, client, client server, climax, climber, climbing, climograph, cloud, collider, cook, cookie, cooking, cooking card, cooking school, Coulomb's force, coutouriere, couturier, crime story, crisis, criteria, crouching start, crown, cryoelectronics, cryogenics, cumin, cushion, cushion ball, Klaxon, Kuwait, large size, multi-purpose health facility, pitcher throwing to first base, quake, Quaker, quality, quality paper, quantity, quantize, quark, quarter, quarterback, quartet, quartz, quasar, queen, queen size, Queen's English, Queensland, question, question mark, quick, quick motion, quick step, quick turn, quilter, quintet, quinto, quiz, quiz mania, quiz rally, quota, quotation mark, quote, Society of Friends, the Queen Mary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しきほう (ceremony, manners), きか" (already published, boiler, engine, facility, feedback, flagship, gauge, hunger and cold, instrument, key, mainstay, mechanism, mirror, nucleus, organ, paragon, pattern, period, repatriation, return, returning to one'sship, term, trachea, wonderful sight, your letter), クォータリー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사계. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | raieeoil, raieaghan, gagh raiee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arterlyquay trimestral (terminal). (various references) trimestrial, publicaţie trimestrialã. (various references) трехмесячный (trimonthly), квартальный, ежеквартальный. (various references) r itheil (a. quarterly). (various references) tromesečni. (various references) trimestral (terminal). (various references) kvartalsvis. (various references) üç aylık bülten, üç aylık, üç ayda bir olan, üç ayda bir çıkan dergi, üç ayda bir, çeyrek (a quarter, one fourth, quarter). (various references) раз на квартал, тримісячний, квартальне періодичне видання. (various references) tạp chí xuất bản ba tháng một lần. (various references) chwarterol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Quarterly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: qaurterly, quartel, Quartetly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quarterly" (pronounced kwô"rterlē or kô"rterlē) |
| 4 | -t er l ē | bitterly, easterly, masterly, northeasterly, northwesterly, painterly, utterly, westerly. |
| 3 | -er l ē | brotherly, circularly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, miserly, motherly, neighborly, northerly, orderly, overly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, soberly, somberly, southerly, spectacularly, tenderly, Weatherly. |
| 4 | -t er l ē | bitterly, easterly, masterly, northeasterly, northwesterly, painterly, utterly, westerly. |
| 3 | -er l ē | brotherly, circularly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, miserly, motherly, neighborly, northerly, orderly, overly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, soberly, somberly, southerly, spectacularly, tenderly, Weatherly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-q-r-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: quarrel, quarter. | |
-3 letters: artery, elytra, lyrate, quarry, quarte, quatre, rarely, realty, retral. | |
-4 letters: alert, alter, artel, early, equal, later, layer, leary, lurer, lutea, lyart, quale, quare, quart, quate, query, ratel, rater, relay, retry, ruler, rural, taler, tarre, tarry, teary, terra, terry, truer, truly, tuyer, ultra, urare, urate, ureal, yarer, yurta. | |
-5 letters: aery, arty, aryl. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-q-r-r-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: equilibratory. | |
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