# biweekly

Pronunciation: say "by-WEEK-lee" /baɪˈwiːkli/

## Adjective

1. Happening once every two weeks, with two weeks between one occurrence and the next.
   - Simple: Happening once every two weeks, not every week.
   - _Employees receive a biweekly paycheck, which works out to twenty-six payments a year._
   - _The committee switched from weekly to biweekly meetings, so members now gather every other Wednesday._
3. Happening twice in each week.
   - Simple: Happening two times in every week.
   - _The clinic offers biweekly evening hours, staying open late every Tuesday and Thursday._
   - _With biweekly deliveries arriving each Monday and Thursday, the bakery never runs short of flour._

## Adverb

2. Once every two weeks, with each time falling two weeks after the one before.
   - Simple: Once every two weeks, not every week.
   - _Staff at the firm are paid biweekly, on alternating Fridays._
   - _Rangers check the traps biweekly, returning to each one fourteen days after the last visit._
5. Twice in each week.
   - Simple: Two times in every week.
   - _The physical therapist asked him to come in biweekly, every Tuesday and Friday, until his knee healed._
   - _During the summer the garden is watered biweekly, on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings._

## Noun

4. A publication or other release that comes out once every two weeks, such as a newspaper on that schedule.
   - Simple: Something, like a newspaper, that comes out once every two weeks.
   - _The neighborhood newspaper started as a weekly but became a biweekly when ad sales fell._
   - _The story ran in two regional biweeklies, so some readers waited nearly two weeks to see it._

## Origin

Formed from the prefix bi- + week + the suffix -ly. The sense meaning "twice a week" can instead be analyzed as bi- + weekly.

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