Quarterly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Quarterly is an adjective meaning Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
Meaning
Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
More Meanings
- (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
- A periodical publication that appears four times per year.
- Once every quarter year (three months).
- (heraldry) In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
Example Sentences
quarterly rent payments
The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.
“We’re hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors … you can’t do this stuff,” FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN this week.
It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […].
Word Forms
- quarterlies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bi-annual, annual, half-yearly, triennial, biannual, monthly.
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