Hourly meaning

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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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Origin of hourly

  • hour +‎ -ly
    From Wiktionary

Hourly Sentence Examples

  • "I want updates hourly," Elise ordered.

  • There is also an hourly ferry service to Alexandria, and at irregular intervals there are boats direct to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.

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

  • His intimate friend, Governor Letcher, appreciating his gifts, sent him as a colonel of infantry to Harper's Ferry, where the first collision with the Union forces was hourly expected.

  • 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.

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