quarterly

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English

A quarterly coat of arms (Hohenzollern)

Etymology 1

From quarter +‎ -ly (adjectival).

Adjective

quarterly (not comparable)

  1. Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
    quarterly rent payments
    • 2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN:
      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.
  2. (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
    The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.
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Noun

quarterly (plural quarterlies)

  1. A periodical publication that appears four times per year.
    • 2013 February 22, Scott Zamost and Drew Griffin, “FBI battling ‘rash of sexting’ among its employees”, in CNN:
      “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.
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Etymology 2

From quarter +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

Adverb

quarterly (not comparable)

  1. Once every quarter year (three months).
  2. (heraldry) In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
    • 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:
      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 [] .
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