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EVERY WEEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does every week mean? 

EVERY WEEK (adverb)
  The adverb EVERY WEEK has 1 sense:

1. without missing a weekplay

  Familiarity information: EVERY WEEK used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EVERY WEEK (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Without missing a week

Synonyms:

each week; every week; hebdomadally; weekly

Context example:

she visited her aunt weekly


 Context examples 


We dine at Rosings twice every week, and are never allowed to walk home.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He made it a point to save so much every week, no matter what he had to do without in order to save it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You may get treatment every day, every week or every month.

(Cancer Chemotherapy, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

“As long as you are here, my pet, I shall come over every week of my life to see you. One day, every week of my life!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This year our good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to receive a bird at Christmas.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is in Highbury every now and then, and he is sure to ride through every week in his way to Kingston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Researchers from Australia and Greece divided the children into two groups and instructed around half to eat two meals of cooked fatty fish (of at least 150 grams) as part of the Greek Mediterranean diet every week for six months.

(Fish-Rich Diet Beneficial for Children with Asthma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Yet, so far have you been from answering my expectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of degrading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

No drop shall pass my lips, Jim, if you will swear, wet or shine, blow or snow, to come up here twice in every week, that I may see you and speak with you, for, indeed, there are times when I am very lonesome.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Grant, cannot be in the habit of teaching others their duty every week, cannot go to church twice every Sunday, and preach such very good sermons in so good a manner as he does, without being the better for it himself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)



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