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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Done, occurring, or appearing every three months.
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- adjective Occurring at
intervals of threemonths apart. - noun A
periodical publication that appearsfour times per year (every threemonths ).
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Letters placed in front of a word to form a new word: trimonthly, semimonthly, bilingual, multilingual, address, redress, predate, postdate.
prefix 2002
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I wasn't counting pills or worrying whether I would run out, and I was switched from monthly to every-three-month (trimonthly?) appointments at the pain clinic because my prescription was stable. two pink lines.
One More Thing 2010
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I wasn't counting pills or worrying whether I would run out, and I was switched from monthly to every-three-month (trimonthly?) appointments at the pain clinic because my prescription was stable. two pink lines.
One More Thing 2010
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And with few analysts predicting a hasty recovery, these housing reports are quickly turning into trimonthly bulletins of the industry’s interminable slog back to simply normal.
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