Weekly

Definition: Weekly

Weekly

Adjective

1. Occurring or payable every week; "a weekly trip to town"; "weekly wages"; "weekly rent".

Adverb

1. Without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly".

Noun

1. A periodical that is published every week.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "weekly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Weekly

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal, hebdomadary; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten;

Crosswords: Weekly

Mr. White, I was wondering if you could arrange for half my salary to be sent to this address on a weekly basis (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

How many times have I told you to wash your hands after a weekly cross burning (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

I wonder why there was a picture of me on the cover of entertainment weekly. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I see we're making our visits a weekly ritual (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith)

It's Thursday, which means everyone who should be in the weekly briefing is, um, dead (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

Attend Church weekly not weakly. (references; author: unknown)

Frost's Weekly (1973)

I.F. Stone's Weekly (1973)

The Illustrated Weekly Hudd (1965)

Price 2d Idiot Weekly (1956)

Pathétone Weekly No. 314 (1936)

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

Books

• Pregnancy Week-By-Week: Everything You Need to Know About Yourself and Your Developing Baby: Plus Essential Weekly Planner (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Australian Womens Weekly (reference)

• Science Weekly : Level E Grades 5-6 (reference)

• Accountants Tax Weekly (reference)

• Ag Insight Weekly (reference)

• Weekly Ag Update (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Weekly Workout (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Tops Time Cards, Weekly Time Card Form, 1-Sided, 8 1/4in. x 3 3/8in., Box Of 500 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

This is a cartoon from Harper's Weekly circa 1890. It shows an office worker, whose smoking cigar is drooping from his mouth, reading a sign on the wall: "No Smoking In Offices During Office Hours". The caption reads: "another civic-service outrage. Less smoke and more fire". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Technician Jeff Nichols collects a water sample from the Walnut Creek watershed in Ames, Iowa. Samples are collected weekly form this area and surrounding watersheds to study the effects farming practices have on water quality. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Caption: Harper's Weekly, Laying Cable; June 24, 1882; {15.001/123} (jpg).

Line engraving after a drawing by Homer, published in "Harper's Weekly", Volume VII, January-June 1863, page 268, depicting an anxious scene aboard a merchant ship as the Confederate cruiser Alabama comes up. This may represent the capture of the California mail steamer Ariel off Cuba on 7 December 1862, as there were many ladies among the prize ship's passengers. Credit: NAVY.

Two-page spread of line engravings, published in "Harper's Weekly", 3 February 1866. U.S. ships depicted include (at left, top to bottom): Dictator, Manayunk, Ozark, Onondaga, and Roanoke; (in center, top to bottom): Stonewall (ex CSS Stonewall), New Ironsides with Monadnock, and the interior of a monitor's Ericsson turret with two XV-inch Dahlgren guns; (at right, top to bottom): Weehawken, Atlanta (ex CSS Atlanta), Yazoo, Tennessee (ex CSS Tennessee), and Dunderberg. Credit: NAVY.

Stream of passengers at New York International Airport where about 15,000 travellers weekly ... arrived and departed for foreign countries in 1951. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Army canteen as it really is--The reading-room at the Bedloe's Island canteen, New York Harbor / photographed for "Leslie's Weekly" by its staff photographer, R.L. Dunn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gettysburg, Pa. Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, sketching on battlefield. Credit: Library of Congress.

Scene in an auto trailer camp near Dania, Florida, where 200 cars are encamped. This is one of Florida's higher class trailer camps, the rates being $5.00 weekly including electricity. Credit: Library of Congress.

Some of the 200 trailers encamped at an auto-trailer camp near Dania, Florida. This is one of the better trailer camps in Florida, the rates being $5.00 weekly including electricity. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Fifth.­The adoption of a weekly rest of at least twenty-four hours, which should include Sunday wherever practicable. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I think, Miss Woodhouse, you and I must establish a musical club, and have regular weekly meetings at your house, or ours

He had a weekly allowance from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure about the size of a Bristol barrel

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Keep stuffed toys out of the bed or wash the toys weekly in hot water. (references)

These treatments seem to be well accepted by patients and typically involve weekly sessions for 8 to 12 weeks. (references)

Assuming nearly complete equilibration of urea between plasma and peritoneal fluid, this equates to a weekly urea clearance of approximately 70 liters. (references)

Business

Authorities also established a system for weekly adjustments of the exchange rate based on supply and demand. (references)

Each public tender is published in daily newspapers and in the weekly magazine Obchodny Vestnik issued by the Ministry of Justice. (references)

In November gunmen using automatic rifles opened fire on the vehicle of Jesus Blancornelas, founder and editor of Zeta, a Tijuana weekly. (references)

Children

Guatemala

COPREDEH continued weekly meetings of the Permanent Commission for Children, composed of representatives from Casa Alianza and from the judicial and executive branches, with the aim of addressing the problems of street children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Saint Kitts and Nevis

A third weekly newspaper is nonpartisan. (references)

Somalia

There also is an English language weekly newspaper. (references)

Economic History

Azerbaijan

English-language papers are published weekly. (references)

Romania

The press includes both newspapers (daily and weekly) and magazines. (references)

Chad

Other weekly newspapers include L'Observateur, Le Temps and Notre Temps. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Under the program, high-ranking police officials meet weekly with citizens' consultative groups. (references)

Togo

On May 23, Lucien Messan, editor of Combat du Peuple, an opposition weekly, was arrested for fraud. (references)

Grenada

Since October the commission held five weekly sessions, which did not draw much media or public attention. (references)

Minorities

Moldova

A June 8 article in Dialog, a weekly newspaper, was entitled "Snares of the Sects." It alleged that foreign religions disguise themselves by registering as humanitarian or cultural organizations in order to hide their church activities. (references)

Romania

In March a Tirgu Mures-based NGO, Liga Pro Europa, took legal action against a local weekly that carried an interview with two persons using pseudonyms who proposed to "clean the town of Roma." The local prosecutor's office answered in a letter that no crime had been committed and refused to answer a second letter by the NGO asking for the legal grounds of that answer. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Interest rates are set weekly by a government board. (references)

Trade

Romania

On average, weekly transactions total 2,037 and involve 5,452,682 shares. (references)

Mexico

As of July 2001, there are over 690 NOMs in effect and the number goes up weekly. (references)

Peru

The surcharges are calculated on a weekly basis, according to prevailing international prices for each commodity. (references)

Travel

Chad

Weekly, monthly and yearly memberships are available. (references)

Honduras

One weekly English-language newspaper is also published in Honduras. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Mefloquine (Lariam) weekly or doxycycline daily is the most effective. (references)

Women

Turkey

According to a 2000 survey, at least 10 percent of women experienced violence on a daily or weekly basis. (references)

Australia

In February the Bureau of Statistics estimated that the ratio of female to male full-time average ordinary weekly earnings was 84.6 percent. (references)

Worker Rights

Cameroon

The law makes compulsory at least 24 consecutive hours of weekly rest. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "weekly": on a weekly basis ♦ Prozac Weekly ♦ weekly allowance ♦ weekly day off ♦ weekly hours ♦ weekly paper ♦ weekly pass ♦ weekly pocket money ♦ weekly rest day ♦ weekly storage ♦ weekly wages ♦ weekly wash. Additional references.

Beginning with "weekly": weekly-collection, weekly-journal, weekly-paid, weekly-payment.

Ending with "weekly": four-weekly, once-weekly, thrice-weekly, twice-weekly.

Afrikaans

weekliks. (various references)

Albanian

në javë (per week), javor, e përjavshme. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مجلة أسبوعية, ‏الأسبوعية, ‏أسبوعيا, ‏أسبوعي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

седмично, седмичен (hebdomadal). (various references)

Chinese 

週刊 (weekly publication), 每周. (various references)

Czech

týdenní, týdeník, opakující se každý týden, každodenní (casual, daily, diurnal, everyday, quotidian, workaday). (various references)

Danish

ugentlig arbejdstid (weekly hours), ugemagasin Europe Pictorial (weekly newsreel Europe Pictorial), provisorisk ugentlig dosis (provisional tolerated weekly dose). (various references)

Dutch

elke week. (various references)

Esperanto

ĉiusemajne. (various references)

Farsi 

هفته ای یکبار, هفته به هفته , هفتگی . (various references)

Finnish

viikoittainen, viikoittain (every week), viikkolehti, kerran viikossa (once a week), jokaviikkoinen. (various references)

French

hebdomadairement (once a week), hebdomadaire, chaque semaine. (various references)

German

wöchentlich (be the week, by the week, hebdomadal). (various references)

Greek 

καθ' εβδομάδα, εβδομαδιαία εφημερίδα, εβδομαδιαίοσ (hebdomadal), εβδομαδιαίος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מדי שבוע בשבוע, שבועי (hebdomadal), שבועון. (various references)

Hungarian

heti (hebdomadal). (various references)

Indonesian

mingguan. (various references)

Italian

settimanalmente, settimanale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

週間 (week). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうかん (cessation of publication, custom, habit, imprisonment, manners, published weekly, week), ウイークリー , ウィークリー . (various references)

Korean 

주간 (Daytime, Weeklies). (various references)

Manx

'sy chiaghtin, shiaghtnaghan, shiaghtinoil, shiaghtinagh, pabyr shiaghtinoil. (various references)

Pig Latin

eeklyway.(various references)

Portuguese

semanalmente, semanal. (various references)

Romanian

sãptãmânal (hebdomadary, weekly paper), revistã (fortnighty, journal, magazine, periodical, review, revue), hebdomadar (hebdomadal, hebdomadary), casã de raport. (various references)

Russian 

недельный, еженедельный (hebdomadal), еженедельно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svake sedmice, sedmični (hebdomadal), nedeljni (dominical, hebdomadal, sunday), jedanput nedeljno. (various references)

Spanish

semanalmente, semanal. (various references)

Swedish

veckovis, veckotidning (illustrated magazine). (various references)

Turkish

her hafta, haftalık gazete, haftalık dergi, haftalık (hebdomadal, sennight, wage, wages), haftada bir olan (hebdomadal), haftada bir (once a week). (various references)

Turkmen 

hepdelik. (various references)

Ukrainian

щотижня, щотижневий (hebdomadal), тижневик, тижневий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

báo hằng tuần. (various references)

Welsh

wythnosol. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "weekly": biweekly, midweekly, newsweekly, semiweekly, triweekly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Weekly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seekly, wesly, wielk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eely, keel, leek, leke, week, weel, wyle, yelk.

-3 letters: eel, eke, elk, ewe, eye, key, lee, lek, ley, lye, wee, wye, yew.

-4 letters: el, we, ye.

+2 letters: biweekly, wheylike.

+3 letters: midweekly, triweekly.

+4 letters: lawyerlike, newsweekly, semiweekly, yokefellow.

+5 letters: yokefellows.