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24/5

24/5 adverb: 24 hours per day, five days per week (implicitly weekdays: Monday through Friday). Designates a round-the-clock service during the week, but excluding weekends.

24/5: 24 hours per day, five days per week (implicitly weekdays: Monday through Friday). Designates a...
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Adverb

24/5 (not comparable)

  1. 24 hours per day, five days per week (implicitly weekdays: Monday through Friday). Designates a round-the-clock service during the week, but excluding weekends.

Origin of 24/5

Shortened from “twenty-four hours a day, five days a week”. Variant of 24/7.

Questions about 24/5

What does 24/5 mean?
24/5 means 24 hours per day, five days per week (implicitly weekdays: Monday through Friday). Designates a round-the-clock service during the week, but excluding weekends.
What part of speech is 24/5?
24/5 is an adverb.

Words near 24/5 in the dictionary

  1. 24-hour clock
  2. 24-hour clocks
  3. 24-hour day
  4. 24-hour days
  5. 24-hour flu
  6. 24/5
  7. 24/7
  8. 24/7/365
  9. 24/7s
  10. 241
  11. 24mo

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