- Are there any words I can use to disambiguate biweekly?
However, my colleagues talk about having meetings biweekly This causes a lot of confusion, since it can mean either once every two weeks or twice a week We can use fortnightly to indicate once every two weeks and help disambiguate that way Are there any other words we could use which could help, particularly words which mean "twice a week"?
- meaning - Biweekly, bimonthly, biannual, and bicentennial: dual . . .
What do lengths of time with the "bi" prefix mean"? I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year Do biweekly and bimonthly mean twice a week
- Is there a word that means every four weeks?
Is there a fourth word in this series: weekly, biweekly, triweekly, ? If not, and I had to coin a word, then would "quadweekly", "quadriweekly", or some other word be more etymologically approp
- word usage - biweekly, two weeks or twice a week? - English Language . . .
7 biweekly: happening or appearing every two weeks or twice a week Cambridge Dictionary In the following news articles, What the author mean by "bi-weekly"? if it is mean "two weeks" or "twice a week", Why doesn't they use a specific term to make it clear for readers?
- Why there are two different meanings for triweekly?
In view of the dichotomous meanings of biweekly, triweekly etc all I can suggest is that where there is likely to be confusion that you avoid their use, in favour of once every three weeks etc The OED recommends the use of the terms semi-weekly, semi-monthly, semi-annually to avoid any confusion when twice per is intended
- Term for Every 2 weeks? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Possible Duplicate: Are there any words I can use to disambiguate ldquo;biweekly rdquo;? Is there a term two designate a frequency of "every two weeks", like "weekly" for "every week"
- grammar - How appropriate is the usage of Adjective biweekly when . . .
A biweekly is published only biweekly (The only problem is that biweekly can mean either every two weeks or twice a week The only way to resolve this is to know how often a specific biweekly is published, and this can usually be found out on each edition ) A weekly is published weekly A daily is published daily Except I guess there could be 'special editions', but they would be labeled as
- prefixes - Biweekly, bimonthly, semi-confused - English Language . . .
Biweekly, according to dictionary com, can mean either "occurring twice weekly," or "occurring once every two weeks " Falling within the same realm of confusion are bimonthly and biannually
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