Hourly definition

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Occurring every hour.

Hourly chimes.

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Frequent; continual.

Hourly changes in the plans.

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By the hour as a unit.

Hourly pay.

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At or during every hour.

The news is broadcast hourly.

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Frequently; continually.

Complaints that came hourly.

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An employee paid by the hour.
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Done, taken, or happening every hour.
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Completed or happening in the course of an hour.

The hourly output.

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Reckoned by the hour.

Hourly wage.

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Frequent or continual.

To live in hourly dread.

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Once an hour; every hour.
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With frequency.
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That happens every hour.

There are hourly express buses.

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At intervals of an hour.

Express buses depart hourly.

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Something produced each hour.

She never reads her hourly report, but let her hourlies be fifteen minutes late and she raises a ruckus.

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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
hourly
Plural:
hourlies

Origin of hourly

  • hour +‎ -ly

    From Wiktionary

Hourly Sentence Examples

  • All I can say is that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it.

  • It cannot, however, be denied that to live such a life, divine in its powers and human in its sympathies, demands daily and hourly self-sacrifice.

  • Boats leave hourly from the waterfront and booking ahead is essential.

  • In the potential curves of the diagram the ordinates represent the hourly values expressed - as in Tables II.

  • It will be noticed that the difference between the greatest and least hourly values is, in all but three winter months, actually larger than the mean value of the potential gradient for the day; it bears to the range of the regular diurnal inequality a ratio varying from 2.0 in May to 3.6 in November.

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