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quar·ter·ly

(kwôr′tər-lē)

adj.

1. Made up of four parts.

2. Being one of four parts.

3. Occurring or appearing at three-month intervals: a quarterly magazine; a quarterly payment.

4. Heraldry Having four sections. Used of a shield.

n. pl. quar·ter·lies

1. A publication issued regularly every three months.

2. An examination given regularly every three months in some colleges.

adv.

In or by quarters.

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quarterly

(ˈkwɔːtəlɪ)

adj

1. occurring, done, paid, etc, at intervals of three months

2. of, relating to, or consisting of a quarter

n, pl -lies

(Journalism & Publishing) a periodical issued every three months

adv

3. once every three months

4. (Heraldry) heraldry into or in quarters: a shield divided quarterly.

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quar•ter•ly

(ˈkwɔr tər li)

adj., n., pl. -lies,
adv. adj.

1. occurring, done, paid, issued, etc., at the end of every quarter of a year: a quarterly report.

2. pertaining to or consisting of a quarter.

3. a periodical issued every three months.

adv.

4. once each quarter of a year: to pay interest quarterly.

5. with division into four quarters.

[1400–50]

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Noun	1.	quarterly - a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year) serial publication, serial, series - a periodical that appears at scheduled times
Adj.	1.	quarterly - of or relating to or consisting of a quarter; "quarterly report"
Adv.	1.	quarterly - in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon; "two coats of arms borne quarterly"
	2.	quarterly - in three month intervals; "interest is compounded quarterly" every quarter

Translations

كُل رُبْع سَنَه، فَصْلِيّاًكل رُبْع سَنَه، كُل ثلاثَة أشْهُرمَجَلَّة فَصْلِيَّه

čtvrtletněčtvrtletníčtvrtletník

kvartalsskriftkvartalsviskvartårlig

vierteljährlichquartalsweiseVierteljahresschrift

trimestral trimestralmente publicación trimestral

neljänneksittäinneljännesvuosineljännesvuosijulkaisuneljännesvuosittainneljännesvuosittainen

trimestriel trimestriellement publication trimestrielle

negyedév inegyedévenkéntnegyedévenként megjelenő folyóirat

ársfjórîungslegaársfjórîungslegurársfjórîungsrit

trimestrale trimestre

hvert kvartal kvartals-kvartalstidsskrift kvartårlig

štvrťročníkštvrťročný

her üç ayda bir olanüç ayda birüç ayda bir çıkan yayınüç aylık

季刊季度的按季度地

quarterly

[ˈkwɔːtəlɪ]

A. ADV → trimestralmente, cada tres meses

B. ADJ → trimestral

C. N → publicación f trimestral

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

quarterly

[ˈkwɔː^rtə^rli]

adj [earnings, report, survey, publication, magazine] → trimestriel(le)

adv → tous les trois mois

n (PRESS) → revue f trimestrielle

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

quarterly

adj → vierteljährlich

n → Vierteljahresschrift f

adv → vierteljährlich, alle Vierteljahre

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

quarterly

[ˈkwɔːtəlɪ]

1. adj → trimestrale

2. n → periodico trimestrale

3. adv → trimestralmente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

quarter

(ˈkwoːtə) noun

1. one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing. There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.

2. in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.

3. a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live. He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.

4. a direction. People were coming at me from all quarters.

5. mercy shown to an enemy.

6. the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg. a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.

7. the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.

8. one of four equal periods of play in some games.

9. a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.

verb

1. to cut into four equal parts. We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.

2. to divide by four. If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.

3. to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay. The soldiers were quartered all over the town.

ˈquarterly adjective

happening, published etc once every three months. a quarterly journal; quarterly payments.

adverb

once every three months. We pay our electricity bill quarterly.

plural ˈquarterlies –noun

a magazine etc which is published once every three months.

ˈquarters noun plural

a place to stay especially for soldiers.

ˈquarter-deck noun

the part of the upper deck of a ship between the stern and the mast nearest it.

ˌquarter-ˈfinal noun

(often in plural) the third-last round in a competition.

ˌquarter-ˈfinalist noun

ˈquartermaster noun

an officer whose job is to provide soldiers with food, transport, a place to live etc.

at close quarters

close to; close together. The soldiers were fighting with the enemy at close quarters.

References in classic literature ?

They looked at her and whispered to each other behind their quarterlies. Nobody made any friendly advances, then or later on when the opening exercises were over and Anne found herself in Miss Rogerson's class.

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Even during this its greatest period, however, Romanticism had for a time a hard battle to fight, and a chief literary fact of the period was the founding and continued success of the first two important English literary and political quarterlies, 'The Edinburgh Review' and 'The Quarterly Review,' which in general stood in literature for the conservative eighteenth century tradition and violently attacked all, or almost all, the Romantic poets.