The 3 most common frequencies of getting paid are either weekly, fortnightly or monthly. However, my colleagues talk about having meetings biweekly. 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. All i can suggest is that where there is likely to be confusion that you avoid their use, in favour of once every three. Are there any words i can use to disambiguate “biweekly”?
In view of the dichotomous meanings of biweekly, triweekly etc. Do biweekly and bimonthly mean. I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year. I certainly find such punctuated usage easier. If not, and i had to coin a word, then would quadweekly, quadriweekly, or some other word be more etymologically.
The 3 most common frequencies of getting paid are either weekly, fortnightly or monthly. However, my colleagues talk about having meetings biweekly. 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. All i can suggest is that where there is likely to be confusion.
In view of the dichotomous meanings of biweekly, triweekly etc. Do biweekly and bimonthly mean. I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year. I certainly find such punctuated usage easier. If not, and i had to coin a word, then would quadweekly, quadriweekly, or some other word be more etymologically.
Is there a fourth word in this series: Now, i'm actually interested in how americans express the same idea. This causes a lot of confusion, since it can mean either once every two weeks or twice a week. What do lengths of time with the bi prefix mean? The latter is, to me, quite clear thanks to the use of.
Is there a term two designate a frequency of every two weeks, like. Every university program i have had contact with that can afford to pay its grad students refers to such payments as graduate student. If you get paid fortnightly, do you. For terms of multiple weeks or months i have to resort to longer. Could you give a.
The 3 most common frequencies of getting paid are either weekly, fortnightly or monthly. However, my colleagues talk about having meetings biweekly. 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. All i can suggest is that where there is likely to be confusion.
Now, i'm actually interested in how americans express the same idea. This causes a lot of confusion, since it can mean either once every two weeks or twice a week. What do lengths of time with the bi prefix mean? The latter is, to me, quite clear thanks to the use of the hyphen.
Every university program i have had contact with that can afford to pay its grad students refers to such payments as graduate student. If you get paid fortnightly, do you. For terms of multiple weeks or months i have to resort to longer. Could you give a specific example?