weekly

[week-lee]

adjective

1. done, happening, appearing, etc., once a week, or every week.

   a weekly appointment with an analyst.

2. computed or determined by the week.

   a special weekly rate.

3. of or relating to a week or the working days in a week.

   a day of respite from our weekly labors.

adverb

1. once a week; by the week.

   to visit someone weekly; to pay rent weekly.

noun

plural

weeklies 

1. a publication appearing once a week.

weekly

/ ˈwiːklɪ /

adjective

1. happening or taking place once a week or every week

2. determined or calculated by the week

adverb

1. once a week or every week

noun

1. a newspaper or magazine issued every week

Word History and Origins

Origin of weekly¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; week, -ly

Example Sentences

The weekly chart has the look of breaking above the bullish ascending triangle pivot at the round $40 number.

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The bank expects consensus to maintain its full-year Ebitda forecast at $3.3 billion, while monitoring weekly freight rates to gauge how credible the low end of the guidance range becomes.

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Kadens’s pitch to the 33 students taking his weekly “Mastering Wealth” class: Affluence isn’t just for privileged people, but for anyone willing to take big risks and work like a demon.

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That more than offset outflows from individual stocks, a team of analysts at BofA Global Research said in a weekly report shared with MarketWatch on Thursday.

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But Belgian-Dutch European Sleeper, a cooperative, said it would launch a train three times weekly between the French and German capitals from March 26, 2026.

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Related Words

• account 
• almanac 
• annals 
• calendar 
• daily 
• diary 
• gazette 
• magazine 
• memoir 
• monthly 
• newspaper 
• note 
• paper 
• periodical 
• publication 
• review 
• tabloid 

When To Use

What does weekly mean?

Weekly most commonly means once a week or every week.It can be used this way as an adjective, as in a weekly meeting, or an adverb, as in We plan to meet weekly. Something described as weekly may happen on the same day every week or simply once a week at any time.Weekly can also mean calculated by week, as in I used to have a weekly quota, but now it’s monthly. Weekly can also be used as a noun referring to a publication that’s published weekly, as opposed to daily or monthly, for example (a daily newspaper can be called a daily). It’s often used in the name of such publications, like Us Weekly. Example: New episodes of my weekly podcast come out every Monday.