Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Happening every two weeks.
- adjective Happening twice a week; semiweekly.
- noun A publication issued every two weeks.
- adverb Every two weeks.
- adverb Twice a week; semiweekly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A periodical issued once every two weeks; a fortnightly publication.
- Occurring or appearing every two weeks: as, a biweekly magazine.
- Fortnightly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Occurring once every two
weeks . - adjective chiefly UK Occurring twice a week (but see the Usage notes).
- adverb Every two weeks.
- adverb chiefly UK Twice a week (but see the Usage notes).
- noun Something that is published or released once every two weeks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective occurring twice a week
- adverb twice a week
- adjective occurring every two weeks
- adverb every two weeks
- noun a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fellow participates in biweekly case conferences of children seen at the PCA.
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For the 2010-2011 year, fellows will receive a stipend of $37,368 (consistent with NIH guidelines), distributed evenly across the year in biweekly checks.
Postdoctoral Program 2010
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I’ve been participating in biweekly Calagator code sprints (we’re hoping to have our 1.0 release in just a couple weeks).
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The secret is a really simple tool called the biweekly mortgage.
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This 26-issue miniseries -- initially described as biweekly, now revised to "twice a month," which provides a little more wiggle room -- looks like it's going to be another attempt at the "spine of the line" premise first attempted with Countdown; a lot of DC series will be spinning out of or directly tied into it.
ComicsAlliance.com Douglas Wolk 2010
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This 26-issue miniseries -- initially described as biweekly, now revised to "twice a month," which provides a little more wiggle room -- looks like it's going to be another attempt at the "spine of the line" premise first attempted with Countdown; a lot of DC series will be spinning out of or directly tied into it.
ComicsAlliance.com Douglas Wolk 2010
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The other half received standard primary care, and they were called biweekly to ensure their safety and provide support if needed.
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There are only two newspapers a week (thus the reason it's called a biweekly) and we start thinking of conspiracies.
Newscoma 2009
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McKinney says he has “tried to get some Spanish-speaking friends to join the council,” referring to the biweekly Knights of Columbus meetings at the parish, but he hasn’t had success.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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In those five papers, we only had to change one word ( "biweekly" to "twice a week") in one of the manuscripts.
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