hourly

[ouuhr-lee, ou-er-]

hour·ly

[ouuhr-lee, ou-er-]
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, occurring, or done each successive hour: hourly news reports.
2.
computed or totaled in terms of an hour; using an hour as a basic unit of reckoning: hourly wages.
3.
hired to work for wages by the hour: hourly workers.
4.
frequent; continual.
adverb
5.
every hour; hour by hour.
6.
at each hour or during every hour.
7.
frequently; continually.

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Hourly is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English; see hour, -ly
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hourly (ˈaʊəlɪ)
 
adj
1.  of, occurring, or done every hour
2.  done in or measured by the hour: we are paid an hourly rate
3.  continual or frequent
 
adv
4.  every hour
5.  at any moment or time

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