quarterly
quarterly adjective: occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
Adjective
quarterly (not comparable)
- Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
- quarterly rent payments
- The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN
- (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
- The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.
Noun
quarterly (plural quarterlies)
- A periodical publication that appears four times per year.
- “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.2013 February 22, Scott Zamost and Drew Griffin, “FBI battling ‘rash of sexting’ among its employees”, in CNN
Adverb
quarterly (not comparable)
- Once every quarter year (three months).
- In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
- 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 […].1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380
- Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and...1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, pages 476-477
quarterly meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
quarterly in Hindi
- occurring once every quarter year
- त्रैमासिक traimāsik
- once every quarter year
- त्रैमासिक traimāsik
quarterly in Tamil
- காலாண்டு
quarterly in Urdu
- سہ ماہی
quarterly in Bengali
- ত্রৈমাসিক, চতুর্থভাগবিশিষ্ট, চতুর্থাংর্শসমন্বিত
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- quarterly in Gujarati
- ત્રિમાસિક trimāsik
- quarterly in Tagalog
- tatluhang-buwanan
- quarterly in Indonesian
- per kuartal
- quarterly in Thai
- รายไตรมาส raai-dtrai-mâat
- quarterly in Vietnamese
- quý san
Examples of quarterly in a sentence
- A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.
- The stock market slid yesterday after major stocks released weak quarterly results.
- Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
Forms of quarterly
| plural | quarterlies |
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Origin of quarterly
From quarter + -ly (adjectival).
From quarter + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Words formed from quarterly
Phrases with quarterly
Questions about quarterly
- What does quarterly mean?
- Quarterly means occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
- What is quarterly in Hindi?
- Quarterly in Hindi is त्रैमासिक (traimāsik). See Quarterly meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is quarterly?
- Quarterly can be an adjective, a noun or an adverb.
Words near quarterly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quarterly (page history and authors); quarterly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quarterly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quarterly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ત્રિમાસિક (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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