hourly

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hourly

  • /ˈaʊ̯əli/ UK
  • /ˈaʊ̯ɚli/ US

adjective

  1. not comparable Occurring every hour. There are hourly express buses.

    Similar: horary

  2. not comparable Unsalaried, paid by the hour; (by extension) blue-collar.

adverb

  1. not comparable At intervals of an hour. Express buses depart hourly.

noun hourlies

  1. Something produced each hour. She never reads her hourly report, but let her hourlies be fifteen minutes late and she raises a ruckus.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: hour, horal, times, time, scheduling, timetable, schedule, scheduled, tentative, hours, schedules, timelines, timetables, constant, recurrent, periodic

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adj that occurs every hour

Españolpor hora
Deutschstündlich, allstündlich
Русскийежеча́сный ježečásnyj, почасово́й počasovój

adv at intervals of an hour

Deutschstündlich
Русскийежеча́сно ježečásno

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@misc{hourly_2026,
  title = {hourly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hourly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}