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Quarterly

Definition: Quarterly

Quarterly

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or consisting of a quarter; "quarterly report".

Adverb

1. In diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon; "two coats of arms borne quarterly".

2. In three month intervals; "interest is compounded quarterly".

Noun

1. 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: Quarterly

Synonym: every quarter (adv). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: quarterlies (meteorology & standardspublishing & graphic artslanguage, publishing & graphic arts).

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Specialty Definition: Quarterly

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A Quarterly is a periodical publication, e.g., a magazine that is produced four times per year, or once per quarter-year.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quarterly."

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Crosswords: Quarterly

English words defined with "quarterly": dividendlove feastQuarterage, QuarterliesTrimestrial. (references)
Specialty definitions using "quarterly": 10-Q, 10-Q reportAmdahl Corporation, Amphigouri, Apple Computer, Inc.call report, Compaq Computer Corporation, Computer Associates, Cray Research, Inc.Data General, debt service, Destructives, Digital Equipment CorporationEU 15 aggregate, EUR 11 aggregate, EUR 11 total, EUR 15 totalform 10Q, Friar JohnGateway 2000Hewlett-Packard, History of Croyland Abbey, HOSSInformation Resource Management, Inprise Corporation, Intel Corporation, Internet SocietyJournalLotus Development CorporationMicrosoft Corporation, Moses' Rod, Motorola, Inc.National Snow and Ice Data CenterQASRMASilicon Graphics, Inc., SORAR, Sun Microsystems, Inc.Tandem Computers, triple-witching hourUniform Thrift Performance Report, Unisys CorporationWang Laboratories. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Quarterly

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ethics and Markets: Co-Operation and Competition Within Capitalist Economies (Political Quarterly) (reference)

  • Inspire Quarterly Vol. #39 Special Occasions (reference)

  • The New Black Mask Quarterly, No. 1 (reference)

  • The Writings of J.M. Coetzee (The South Atlantic Quarterly, Winter 1994, Vol 93, No 1) (reference)

  • Women's Studies Quarterly: Teaching About Violence Against Womem: International Perspectives: Spring/Summer 1999 (Womens Studies Quarterly) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Quarterly Child Abuse Medical Update (reference)

  • Academic Exchange Quarterly (reference)

  • Accident Investigation Quarterly (reference)

  • Changes To The Quarterly And Annual Statement For Life And Accident And Health (reference)

  • Acquisition Review Quarterly (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Quarterly

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Quarterly

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Quarterly Review. Group of nurses. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Quarterly

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Speeches: Quarterly

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953I am also transmitting herewith the Fifth Quarterly Report of the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Quarterly

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)50.76%20021,580
Adverb (general)24.11%9533,629
Noun (singular)17.51%6940,280
Noun (proper)7.61%3063,341
                    Total100.00%394N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Quarterly

Expressions using "quarterly": quarterly apparel survey quarterly magazine. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Quarterly

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

congressional quarterly

95

political quarterly science

14

mckinsey quarterly

56

quarterly report

14

gentlemans quarterly

42

quarterly

13

gentlemens quarterly

39

automobile quarterly

13

quarterly reading research

38

learning disability quarterly

13

abercrombie fitch quarterly

33

leadership quarterly

13

abercrombie quarterly

24

japan quarterly

12

f quarterly

21

mary quarterly william

12

administrative science quarterly

20

washington quarterly

11

wilson quarterly

20

drawn quarterly

10

tesol quarterly

19

quarterly sabbath school

10

quarterly tax

19

educational administration quarterly

10

exercise quarterly research sport

18

occupational outlook quarterly

10

dime quarterly

18

quarterly shakespeare

9

child gifted quarterly

18

career development quarterly

9

corvette quarterly

16

opinion public quarterly

9

mis quarterly

16

communication quarterly

9

economics journal quarterly

16

quarterly science social

9

early childhood research quarterly

15

county historical quarterly somerset

9

action covert quarterly

15

glass pattern quarterly

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Quarterly

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

   

Portuguese

  

trimestral (terminal). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

trimestrial, publicaţie trimestrialã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

трехмесячный (trimonthly), квартальный, ежеквартальный. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

r itheil (a. quarterly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tromesečni. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trimestral (terminal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kvartalsvis. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

раз на квартал, тримісячний, квартальне періодичне видання. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tạp chí xuất bản ba tháng một lần. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

chwarterol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Quarterly

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).

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Rhyming with "Quarterly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "quarterly" (pronounced kwô"rterlē or kô"rterlē)
4-t er l ēbitterly, easterly, masterly, northeasterly, northwesterly, painterly, utterly, westerly.
3-er l ēbrotherly, 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 ēbitterly, easterly, masterly, northeasterly, northwesterly, painterly, utterly, westerly.
3-er l ēbrotherly, 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.

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Anagrams: Quarterly

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Speeches
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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