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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seasonally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adjusted
▪ Mr. Howard United Kingdom seasonally adjusted unemployment rose by 703,700 in the year to December 1991.
▪ The seasonally adjusted total was nevertheless better than expected.
▪ Across the North-East as a whole the seasonally adjusted figure rose by 1,500 on last month.
▪ Mr. Howard On the seasonally adjusted basis there were 2,546,000 unemployed claimants in December 1991.
▪ The seasonally adjusted figure, regarded as the best long-term guide, rose by a lower-than-expected 22,100 in January to 2,995,100.
■ VERB
adjust
▪ A case has to be made, therefore, for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers.
▪ All month-on-month comparisons are seasonally adjusted.
▪ The gain in the seasonally adjusted measure was across all areas.
▪ The unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, dropped from 3.9 to 3.6 percent.
▪ The number is not seasonally adjusted.
▪ Some analysts speculated that this factor could add around 75, 000 jobs to the seasonally adjusted figure the department reports tomorrow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All month-on-month comparisons are seasonally adjusted.
▪ Mr. Howard United Kingdom seasonally adjusted unemployment rose by 703,700 in the year to December 1991.
▪ The unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, dropped from 3.9 to 3.6 percent.
Wiktionary
seasonally

adv. 1 Occurring every season. 2 Occurring only in season.

WordNet
seasonally

adv. depending on the season; "prices are seasonally adjusted"

Usage examples of "seasonally".

Jase took a sip of guaranteed-safe tea and dipped bits of seasonally appropriate meat into sauce one after another with studied mannerliness, not engaging with him on the issues.

Graf is herself a conjoined species, collectively possessing degrees in geochemistry, biology, and neuromuscular therapy, as well as owning two dogs, four snakes, six cats, and a breeding leopard gecko colony, whose population fluctuates seasonally between twelve and forty animals.

Mara stepped from her litter, sandals crunching gently over ulo leaves, which shed seasonally during the dry months.

However, some tribes and even chiefdoms consist of herders who move seasonally.

The local variations - wind speed, soil moisture - are updated as needed in each generation, or seasonally, or day-by-day.

The breadfruit tree fruited seasonally, and when the season was short, there could be famine.

The wide, seasonally low river was located on the outskirts of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

There are polar ice caps, drifting white clouds, raging dust storms, seasonally changing patterns on its red surface, even a twenty-four-hour day.

Sensing vast profits accompanying the convention, management had moved Heaven and Earth, calling back seasonally laid off employees, rushing to hire fillers, and even calling back some retired personnel to fill the remaining gaps.

He'd read all the damned articles available to the reader, he'd become grudgingly informed in the latest in microbiologic engineering, the pros and cons of seasonally adjusted light/ dark cycles and temperature in station environments, the ethics of psychological intervention, and the consequences of weather adjustment in the hurricane season to the North American continent, not to mention five posture checks for low-g workers.

He’d read all the damned articles available to the reader, he’d become grudgingly informed in the latest in microbiologic engineering, the pros and cons of seasonally adjusted light/ dark cycles and temperature in station environments, the ethics of psychological intervention, and the consequences of weather adjustment in the hurricane season to the North American continent, not to mention five posture checks for low-g workers.