semiweekly
Americanadjective
noun
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semiweeklies
plural
adverb
Usage
What does semiweekly mean? Semiweekly means twice a week. It can be used this way as an adjective, as in a semiweekly meeting, or an adverb, as in We plan to meet semiweekly. The word biweekly is a synonym, but it can also mean once every two weeks. Although semiweekly is typically only used to mean twice a week—not every two weeks—it can still be confusing. The best (and maybe only) way to be perfectly clear is to just say “twice a week.”Semiweekly can also be used as a noun referring to a publication that’s published twice per week (as opposed to a weekly or daily, for example). Example: Let’s plan to meet semiweekly, every Tuesday and Friday.
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See bi- 1.
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For a semiweekly cleaning of a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo, prices ranged from $83 to $225.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
Besides EnhanceFitness, Cloud Bamboo’s offerings currently include a weekly Matter of Balance fall-prevention workshop in English and Vietnamese, a semiweekly yoga/meditation class in English and Mandarin, and a weekly karaoke session for Vietnamese speakers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
In his semiweekly coronavirus briefing, Carney said Tuesday that he was “very disappointed” by the letter.
From Washington Times ● May 19, 2020
After living in the center’s residential treatment program in upstate New York, she moved to all-day treatment in Brooklyn that became semiweekly.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
Monthly, weekly, semiweekly, the drains in our house clogged.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Instead, 39 new Negro weeklies and semiweeklies have been started in the past 2? years, bringing the total number of papers to 171.
From Time Magazine Archive
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