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English
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
around the clock
- (duration, idiomatic) All the time, or seemingly all the time; constantly.
They worked around the clock to finish the project on time.
Translations
all the time
- Azerbaijani: bütün sutka, günün iyirmi dörd saatı
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 夜以繼日 / 夜以继日 (zh) (yèyǐjìrì), 晝夜 / 昼夜 (zh) (zhòu-yè)
- Cornish: a-dro dhe’n klock
- Finnish: kellon ympäri; tehdä pyöreitä päiviä (work around the clock)
- French: en permanence (fr), tout le temps (fr), tous les jours que Dieu fait (fr), vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre (fr)
- German: rund um die Uhr (de)
- Hebrew: מסביב לשעון
- Hungarian: szakadatlanul (hu)
- Italian: ventiquattrore (it), ininterrottamente (it), di continuo, giorno e notte
- Japanese: 四六時中 (ja) (しろくじちゅう, shirokujichū)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: døgnet rundt
- Nynorsk: døgnet rundt, døgeret rundt
- Polish: non stop (pl), przez całą dobę, na okrągło
- Portuguese: o tempo inteiro, a todo instante, sem parar (pt)
- Russian: кру́глые су́тки f pl (krúglyje sútki), круглосу́точно (ru) (kruglosútočno), два́дцать четы́ре часа́ в су́тки (dvádcatʹ četýre časá v sútki)
- Slovak: nepretržite
- Spanish: noche y día (es), día y noche, sin descanso
- Swedish: dygnet runt (sv)
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Adjective
around the clock (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Alternative form of around-the-clock.
Synonyms
See also
Noun
around the clock (uncountable)
- Alternative form of round the clock (“darts game”).