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weekly

/ˈwikli/
/ˈwikli/
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Other forms: weeklies

If you routinely go to a yoga class every single Wednesday, you go weekly, or once every seven days. You might even refer to it as your weekly yoga class.

Anything that happens once a week is weekly, whether it's your weekly viewing of a TV show, your weekly algebra study group, or your family's weekly pizza night. At work you might get a weekly paycheck — or you might have a weekly job, watering your neighbors' plants and feeding their fish every Saturday morning. A magazine or newspaper that's published once a week is sometimes called a weekly, too.

Definitions of weekly
  1. noun
    a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year)
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    type of:
    serial, serial publication, series
    a periodical that appears at scheduled times
  2. adjective
    of or occurring every seven days
    “a weekly visit”
    weekly paper”
    synonyms: hebdomadal, hebdomadary
    periodic, periodical
    happening or recurring at regular intervals
  3. adverb
    without missing a week
    “she visited her aunt weekly
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