everyweek

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English

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Etymology

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From every +‎ week, by analogy with everyday.

Adjective

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everyweek (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Present or recurring every week.
    • 1958 March, Muriel Fischer, “Crown Heights Story”, in The Citizens’ Council, volume 3, number 6, Jackson, Miss.: The Citizens’ Councils of America, page 3, column 3:
      “But three years ago was when the troubles really began. The muggings, robberies, rape. An everyweek occurrence now. []
    • 1980, Nisson Wolpin, “‘My Neighbor, My Father, The Rebbe’”, in Nisson Wolpin, editor, The Torah Personality: A Treasury of Biographical Sketches (ArtScroll Judaiscope Series), Brooklyn, N.Y.: Mesorah Publications, Ltd in conjunction with Agudath Israel of America, →ISBN, page 209:
      Witness: Holocaust survivors and their American-born grandchildren — dayanim (rabbinical judges), rabbanim, diamond polishers, computer technicians, and gas-pump attendants among them — who proudly walk the streets of the New World in traditional garb, making the shtreimel an everyweek feature of many communities.
    • [1987], “Timer Recording”, in Operating Instructions: Video Cassette Recorder, NV-G25 Series, Central Osaka: Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd., page 21:
      For Everyday Recording [] For Everyweek Recording [] When programming an everyweek recording with the Remote Controller, press any of 7 keys (1 SU ~ 7 SA) to select the day of the week.
    • 1993, Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Cast (The Beeler Large Print Mystery Series), Hampton Falls, N.H.: Beeler Large Print, published 1999, →ISBN, page 207:
      “What kind of place do you live in! Every time we turn around, somebody else is getting killed!” / “Believe me, it’s not an everyday occurrence.” An everyweek occurrence lately, however.
    • 1994 November 9, T[homas] R[oy] Reid, “Some Japanese Kiss in Public; Their Elders Are Shocked . . . Shocked!”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer; reprinted in Mark Hutter, “[Mate Selection] Mate Selection in Feudal and Contemporary Japan”, in The Changing Family, 3rd edition, Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon, 1998, →ISBN, page 268, column 1:
      It’s not an everyday, or even an everyweek, event, but nowadays you can sometimes see young couples kissing goodbye at street corners and train stations.
    • 2005, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Fizz Carr, The River Cottage Family Cookbook, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 11:
      We hope this becomes an ‘everyday’ book in your kitchen – or at least an ‘everyweek’ book.
    • 2006, Edd McNair, My Time to Shine, Deer Park, N.Y.: Urban Books LLC, →ISBN, page 231:
      One night, five hours, we had made over ten G’s. This instantly became an everyweek thing.