round-the-clock
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See also: round the clock
English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
round-the-clock (not comparable)
- Continuous; incessant; without interruption; all day long, 24 hours per day; nonstop: from the concept that it happens while the hands of the clock go all the way around.
- Synonym: around-the-clock
- They are protected by round-the-clock guards.
- 1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
- My correspondent should enquire what it is that prompts the continuous building, even in Great Britain, with the disadvantage of imported fuel, of diesel shunters: it is, of course, continuous "round-the-clock" availability.
Translations[edit]
all day long
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