Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring or issued twice a month.
- noun A semimonthly publication.
- adverb At intervals twice monthly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Occurring twice in each month.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Coming or made twice in a month
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Occurring twice a
month or athalf monthintervals . - adverb In a manner occurring twice a
month or athalf monthintervals . - noun Something done or made every half month, especially a
periodical .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective occurring twice a month
- adverb twice a month
- noun a periodical that is published twice each month (or 24 issues per year)
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Examples
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Financial Services Commission Vice Chairman Shin Je-yoon said Thursday the regulator won't rule on the acquisition during a semimonthly meeting of top officials Wednesday.
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Readings from the semimonthly online zine of literary adventure fantasy edited by Andrews.
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Readings from the semimonthly online zine of literary adventure fantasy edited by Andrews.
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While the authority previously aimed to make a decision this month, the official said Monday it is unclear whether the high commission at the FSC will even discuss the matter during its semimonthly meeting Wednesday—previously seen as the most likely time for a ruling.
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Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer.
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Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer.
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Our next semimonthly photo contest is to submit night photography.
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For the semimonthly reporting period ended April 30, the number of short-selling positions not yet closed out at Nasdaq -- so-called short interest -- edged down to 9,590,569,984 shares from 9,591,454,368 shares in mid-April.
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For the semimonthly reporting period ending April 15, the number of short-selling positions not yet closed out at NYSE -- so-called short interest -- rose 0.3% to 15,625,464,452 shares from 15,586,035,359 shares March 31.
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Our next semimonthly photo contest is transportation.
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