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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hourly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hourly/weekly/monthly earnings
▪ Some football players have weekly earnings of over £50,000.
the hourly/daily/monthly etc wage
▪ The average daily wage was £100.
the hourly/weekly rate (=the amount someone is paid per hour or per week)
▪ Women have lower hourly rates of pay than men.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
earnings
▪ Within the Paid Employment Arena 3.2 Differential hourly earnings are the most obvious indicator of the patriarchal dividend.
▪ Mississippi has the lowest income per capita of any state, as well as the lowest hourly earnings for production workers.
▪ Average hourly earnings advanced a scant 1 cent in January, reaching $ 12. 06.
fee
▪ To ensure complete objectivity there are a growing number of IFAs who do not take commission but who charge an hourly fee.
▪ Mr Bennett, even at his hourly fees still an officer of the court, should be ashamed of himself.
▪ And I will pay you your regular hourly fee plus fifty percent.
▪ It did, however, charge hourly fees that could add up quickly for heavy users.
rate
▪ Costs Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate.
▪ He announced the results of a survey of 400 vets working in 600 slaughterhouses which found the average hourly rate was £25.70.
▪ There is one basic hourly rate with a limited number of hours and a single overtime rate.
▪ Some firms find the problem of setting out hourly rates some-what daunting.
▪ All instruments, programming and engineering fees are included in the hourly rate of £16.
▪ The client must be told the hourly rate charged and the extent of the mark-up for skill, care and attention.
▪ Where there is a match the number of hours in column C is multiplied by the hourly rate.
▪ Or perhaps an hourly rate - what do you think?
wage
▪ Last night his hourly wage, about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins.
▪ Bond prices initially slumped after the report showed hourly wages rose 0. 4 percent last month and rekindled inflation concerns.
▪ In fact, production employees receive no base salary or hourly wage at all.
▪ As early as 1966, a Labor Department study found both earned about the same hourly wages.
worker
▪ Top performing hourly workers in 1988 could earn as much as $ 80, 000 in earnings including bonus.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The shuttle offers hourly flights linking New York and Washington.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A toll-free number for Internet access may be offered as well for an hourly charge.
▪ An hourly service from 10.00 will operate and there will be accommodation for non-Santa passengers.
▪ Caffeine enemas are given four hourly, as well as castor oil - orally or by enema - to aid detoxification.
▪ Every day, and sometimes hourly, another batch of papers reaches the manager demanding his attention.
▪ Four years later, it converted to hourly news headlines that it produced itself.
▪ He announced the results of a survey of 400 vets working in 600 slaughterhouses which found the average hourly rate was £25.70.
▪ The client must be told the hourly rate charged and the extent of the mark-up for skill, care and attention.
▪ To ensure complete objectivity there are a growing number of IFAs who do not take commission but who charge an hourly fee.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hourly

Cyclic \Cyc"lic\ (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyclical \Cyc"lic*al\ (s?k"l?-kal), a. [Cf. F. cycluque, Gr. kykliko`s, fr. ky`klos See Cycle.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
    --Coleridge.

  2. (Chemistry) Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure. Opposite of acyclic.

    Note: Used most commonly in respect to organic compounds.

    Note: [Narrower terms: bicyclic; heterocyclic; homocyclic, isocyclic]

    Syn: closed-chain, closed-ring.

  3. Recurring in cycles[2]; having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic. Opposite of noncyclic.

    Note: [Narrower terms: alternate(prenominal), alternating(prenominal); alternate(prenominal), every other(prenominal), every second(prenominal); alternating(prenominal), oscillating(prenominal); biyearly; circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity); circular; daily, diurnal; fortnightly, biweekly; hourly; midweek, midweekly; seasonal; semestral, semestrial; semiannual, biannual, biyearly; semiweekly, biweekly; weekly; annual, yearly; biennial; bimonthly, bimestrial; half-hourly; half-yearly; monthly; tertian, alternate(prenominal); triennial]

  4. Marked by repeated cycles[2].

    Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.

    Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject.
    --Milman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hourly

late 15c. (adv.); 1510s (adj.), from hour + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
hourly

a. 1 That happens every hour 2 Non-salaried, blue-collared adv. At intervals of an hour. n. Something produced each hour.

WordNet
hourly
  1. adj. occurring every hour or payable by the hour; "hourly chimes"; "hourly pay"

  2. adv. every hour; "daily, hourly, I grew stronger" [syn: by the hour]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "hourly".

In that case she who had showed a brave front to Basterga all these months, who had not blenched before the daily and hourly persecution to which she had been exposed in her home, was not likely to succumb to the senile advances of a man who might be her grandfather!

A negro, by the name of Jones, exhibiting not long since in Philadelphia, gave hourly exhibitions of his ability to swallow with impunity pieces of broken glass and china.

But the odors and noises and arguments with other boatmen were no damper to the excitement of knowing that Inwit was hourly nearer.

At their feet is a tangle of fungi, mosses, ferns, trailers, lilies, nibongs, reeds, canes, rattans, a dense and lavish undergrowth, in which reptiles, large and small, riot most congenially, and in which broods of mosquitoes are hourly hatched, to the misery of man and beast.

And where can I get a manicurist and an hourly supply of chocolates, and where can I buy silk yarns?

They kept a lookout on the midmast, though those had to be changed hourly because of the nip of the wind.

The deacon Theodosius, with the bishop and clergy, was dragged in chains from the altar to Palermo, cast into a subterraneous dungeon, and exposed to the hourly peril of death or apostasy.

I should strongly recommend a strict hourly attention to the thermometrical state of the water at the surface, in all parts where ships are exposed to the dangerous concussion of sailing icebergs, as a principal means of security.

This had been promoted by the example hourly ringing in their ears of vernile scurrility.

Thanks to the control possessed by the Parmenter Syndicate over the Atlantic cables and the aerograph system of the world, he was kept daily, sometimes hourly, acquainted with everything that was happening.

Drinking the water of the Nile, eating the crumbs of dourha bread she had brought from the hospital, getting an onion from a field, chewing shreds of sugarcane, hiding by day and trudging on by night, hourly growing weaker, she struggled towards Beni Souef.

After all, she was working out of a room at La Casita, charging hourly rates.

Arnould Fabrice had kept Agnes de Lucines in France these days, even though she was in hourly peril of arrest.

No wine appeared, only Septa Unella, making her hourly visit to ask if the queen was ready to confess.

That he could not, however, help complaining a little against the peculiar severity of his fate, which brought the news of so great a calamity to him by surprize, and that at a time when he hourly expected the severest blow he was capable of feeling from the malice of fortune.