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everyweek en · ADJ

Etymology

From every + week, by analogy with everyday.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Present or recurring every week.
    • 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. 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:
    • “But three years ago was when the troubles really began. The muggings, robberies, rape. An everyweek occurrence now.[…]” 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:
    • 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. [1987], “Timer Recording”, in Operating Instructions: Video Cassette Recorder, NV-G25 Series, Central Osaka: Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd., page 21:
    • We hope this becomes an ‘everyday’ book in your kitchen – or at least an ‘everyweek’ book. 2005, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Fizz Carr, The River Cottage Family Cookbook, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 11:
    • 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. 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:
    • One night, five hours, we had made over ten G’s. This instantly became an everyweek thing. 2006, Edd McNair, My Time to Shine, Deer Park, N.Y.: Urban Books LLC, →ISBN, page 231:
    • “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. 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: