24/7
See also: 24-7
English
Adverb
24/7 (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of twenty-four seven.
- 2006, Scuba Diving (issues 1-6, page 49)
- He banned spearfishing wherever he could, started the first eco-moorings in the Caribbean, stopped others from coral- and shell-collecting, and had so much fun 24/7 that some unusually powerful people began to hang with him.
- 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times:
- At the same time that I used Woebot, I also volunteered for a crisis text service available 24/7 for people to message in times of need.
- 2024 April 3, Richard Foster, “Training the next generation of engineers”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 48:
- Secondly, preserved railways are not 24/7 operations. There are closed seasons where they can be turned into open-air classrooms.
- 2006, Scuba Diving (issues 1-6, page 49)
Translations
abbreviation of twenty-four seven
|
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English 24/7, while the reading kaksi(kymmentä) neljä seitsemän is a calque of English twenty-four seven.
Pronunciation
Either as kaksikymmentä neljä seitsemän, kaksi neljä seitsemän or kaksi neljä seiska (the final i of kaksi may be omitted as usual in colloquial pronunciations)
Italian
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.