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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quarterly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
quarterly earnings (=the amount a company earns during a three-month period)
▪ The bank will announce its quarterly earnings on January 17.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
basis
▪ Where white and black churches exist side by side, some congregations are now meeting to worship together on a quarterly basis.
▪ The Paladins are practically regulars here in the Old Pueblo, making their round of Tucson stages on an almost quarterly basis.
▪ The majority of the responses indicated that they would like to receive these digests on a quarterly basis.
▪ We cut the reports from twenty-seven to twelve on a quarterly basis.
▪ These cover the years 1988 to 1991 and on a quarterly basis for 1991 and 1992.
▪ On a quarterly basis, tables are produced for each reporting clinic.
dividend
▪ If the dividend yield is 4 percent perannum, then the quarterly dividend payment is 1 percent.
▪ To that end, Kmart also eliminated its 12-cents-a-share quarterly dividend.
earnings
▪ The computer maker warned early this month that its quarterly earnings would be well below analysts' expectations.
▪ Consensus estimates predict quarterly earnings of 57 cents per share, according to Zacks Investment Research.
▪ Critics say the new accounting standard will unnecessarily create scary, volatile numbers in quarterly earnings reports.
▪ Company-wide layoffs are expected after January 17 when Apple announces its quarterly earnings.
▪ Other stocks surged after reporting better-than-expected quarterly earnings.
▪ The computer electronics maker told analysts that inventory thefts led to lower-than-expected quarterly earnings.
▪ With that mind-set, everything else becomes secondary to the ability to deliver the next quarterly earnings push-up.
increase
▪ That was the largest quarterly increase in three years.
▪ The $ 150 quarterly increase reflects the increase in size of the loan concomitant with the fixed asset expansion.
journal
▪ Wayne's account of his ordeal was published in On the Level, the quarterly journal of the multi-storey freaks.
loss
▪ In the last three months of 1990, the Tribune Company recorded its first quarterly loss since going public in 1983.
▪ For the first time ever, the company took a quarterly loss.
▪ Cirrus Logic lived down to expectations yesterday, reporting a fat quarterly loss reflecting a major restructuring and a slump in sales.
▪ It was only the third quarterly loss for Boeing in the last 25 years.
▪ Of course, two chapters of bickering, missteps, finger-pointing and quarterly losses later, Amelio is being pushed out.
▪ Three years later, it reported its worst quarterly loss ever and laid off 16 percent of its work force.
magazine
▪ She is now the commissioning editor of the quarterly magazine Granta.
▪ These include a quarterly magazine and copies of minutes from General Assemblies and AGMs.
▪ It has published some 28 books on different health issues and produces a quarterly magazine.
▪ Members receive a quarterly magazine together with details of discounts on various goods and services including holidays, entertainment and High Street purchases.
▪ Our group publishes a quarterly magazine, giving help, advice and the latest news on access, etc.
meeting
▪ He may obtain a transfer in one way only, from the licensing board, at a quarterly meeting.
▪ The protests were the highest since the early 1980s, the council's quarterly meeting was told.
▪ Only last week my right hon. Friend concluded yet another of his quarterly meetings with 15 consumer organisations.
newsletter
▪ Clients who buy through this service will receive a quarterly newsletter.
payment
▪ Even after the last quarterly payment there was a termination payment of £250.
▪ Most dividends are paid quarterly, and each quarterly payment must be voted on and approved by the board.
profit
▪ Companies listed below reported quarterly profit substantially different from the average of analysts' estimates.
report
▪ Murphy said he will ask the city's three representatives to give quarterly reports to the council Rules Committee.
▪ Consultants would pay registration fees and file quarterly reports with the city Ethics Commission.
result
▪ And the accounting team is struggling to get quarterly results distributed on time.
▪ More details on the special charge and layoffs are expected April 30 when McKesson reports its quarterly results.
▪ Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp. is expected to post its own quarterly results on June 10.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a quarterly newsletter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quarterly

Quarterly \Quar"ter*ly\, a.

  1. Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.

  2. Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.

Quarterly

Quarterly \Quar"ter*ly\, n.; pl. Quarterlies. A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.

Quarterly

Quarterly \Quar"ter*ly\, adv.

  1. By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly.

  2. (Her.) In quarters, or quarterings; as, to bear arms quarterly; in four or more parts; -- said of a shield thus divided by lines drawn through it at right angles.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
quarterly

early 15c., from quarter (n.) + -ly (2). As an adjective from 1560s, from -ly (1). As a noun, from 1830, "a quarterly publication," from the adjective.

Wiktionary
quarterly

a. 1 Occurring once every quarter year (three months). 2 (context heraldry English) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise. adv. Once every quarter year (three months). n. A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

WordNet
quarterly
  1. adj. of or relating to or consisting of a quarter; "quarterly report"

  2. n. a periodical that is published every quarter

  3. adv. in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon; "two coats of arms borne quarterly"

  4. in three month intervals; "interest is compounded quarterly" [syn: every quarter]

Usage examples of "quarterly".

But would you believe that I purchase all this delight, joy, and happiness, for which I would cheerfully have surrendered ten years of my life, at the small cost of 500 francs per annum, paid quarterly?

If the Earth were to suffer a catastrophic anthropogenic extinction event over the next ten years, which it will, American business would continue to focus on its quarterly profit and loss.

Suggested form of report, to be made quarterly by the responsible head of each Institution wherein animal experimentation is authorized.

As she poured herself some lemonade, her mind shied away from the reality of her almost paranoic dread of this quarterly ordeal.

JOURNAL is published quarterly and forms, each year, a volume of between 500 and 600 pages royal 8vo, illustrated with colored, heliotype, phototype, half-tone and other plates and numerous figures.

Their contacts had been electronic, plus the quarterly meetings at the Institute for Probatory Therapies.

Philadelphian named George Scithers, had got the magazine off to a fast start, with Asimov himself as a benign guiding presence in the background, and it grew so quickly in popularity that its publishing frequency increased from quarterly at the outset to bi-monthly in 1978 and monthly a year later.

It was then that there appeared, in Primitive Arts Quarterly, an off piece by the trilobal psychologist James Riddle.

Some of your friends have probably informed you that at our last Quarterly Meeting much sympathy was expressed for the destitute artizans, and a liberal subscription was commenced, and was to be carried forward in all our meetings for their relief: a few days ago it amounted to L800--I hope it will exceed L1000: but what is that, it may be said, among so many?

Quarterly, 1 and 4 a lion rampant for Percy, 2 and 3 three luces hauriant for Lucy--Percy.

We shall faithfully pay our proportions to ye under-Keeper of ye said Library quarterly, and also our equall share wth ye rest of our brethren in all Charges they shall be at for ye better preserving of ye said Library.

A quarterly Financial Statement showing total donations and specific expenditures will be available from the above regular or email addresses.

But would you believe that I purchase all this delight, joy, and happiness, for which I would cheerfully have surrendered ten years of my life, at the small cost of 500 francs per annum, paid quarterly?

She confounded all she was taught, and never could recollect whether the verb was conjugated and the noun declined, or whether it was the other way round, to use one of her favourite expressions, so that her preceptors were compelled to fall back, more exclusively than with her schoolfellows, on her moral conduct, which was outwardly respectable enough, but by the occupant of the other bed might perhaps have been reported on in terms not quite so satisfactory as those in the quarterly form signed by Miss Ponsonby.

Triaminotetralin, a synthesized hallucinogen whose high transdermal bioavailability makes it a popular ingredient in the 'Happy Patches' so prevalent in the American West and Southwest of Subsidized Time Pharmochemical Quarterly 17, 18 (Spring, Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar) provides a detailed account of the synthesis and transdermal physiochemistry of aminotetralins in general.