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BI-MONTHLY

Date "BI-MONTHLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)


Crosswords: BI-MONTHLY

Specialty definitions using "BI-MONTHLY": Packard Bell Electronics, Inc.. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: BI-MONTHLY

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Screenplays

Then at Hope, my bi-monthly sickle cell circle. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BI-MONTHLY

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Books

  • Bi-monthly Update - April 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BI-MONTHLY

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Business

CANAINTEX publishes a Spanish bi-monthly specialty magazine. (references)

The ADA produces a bi-monthly dental journal and a newsletter. (references)

Importers may deduct the paid value-added tax (IVA) from their bi-monthly IVA tax reports when retail sales are made to third parties either as the final product or as a part of a more complex system. (references)

Economic History

Tunisia

IMPORTANT PERIODICALS INCLUDE: THE GOVERNMENT-OWNED FRENCH LANGUAGE DAILY LA PRESSE (DAILY PRINT RUN - 42,000), LE TEMPS (PRIVATE, FRENCH; 20,000), LE QUOTIDIEN (NEW PRIVATE FRENCH LANGUAGE DAILY, LAUNCHED SPRING 2001); L'ECONOMISTE MAGHREBIN (FRENCH; BI-MONTHLY, 15,000), RÉALITÉS (FRENCH AND ARABIC; WEEKLY, 20,000), L'OBSERVATEUR (FRENCH AND ARABIC; WEEKLY, 14,000), TUNISIA NEWS (ENGLISH; WEEKLY, 15,000), ASH-SHURUQ (PRIVATE, ARABIC; 80,000), AND AS-SABAH (ARABIC; 53,000). SELECTED FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING THE FRENCH DAILY LE MONDE, ARE ALSO GENERALLY AVAILABLE IN TUNISIA, ALTHOUGH INDIVIDUAL ISSUES ARE SOMETIMES WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC SALE IF THEY CONTAIN "UNACCEPTABLE" MATERIAL. (references)

Travel

Chad

Water: Major consumers (companies, international organizations, embassies) are billed on a monthly basis, but individual consumers receive bi-monthly bills. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BI-MONTHLY

"BI-MONTHLY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BI-MONTHLY" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5048,117

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BI-MONTHLY

Language Translations for "BI-MONTHLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

keayrt 'sy daa vee, keayrt 'sy chegeesh (fortnightly), gagh nah vee, gagh cor vee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

i-monthlybay

   

Romanian

  

bilunar (bimensal, fortnighty), o datã în douã luni. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BI-MONTHLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bimonthly.

Words within the letters "b-h-i-l-m-n-o-t-y"

-2 letters: monthly, thionyl.

-3 letters: homily, hominy, intomb, mythoi, nimbly, thinly, thymol.

-4 letters: biont, blimy, bothy, hotly, limbo, limby, linty, litho, milty, minty, month, mothy, nobly, noily, thiol, thymi.

-5 letters: bint, blin, blot, boil, bolt, bony, both, hilt, hint, holm, holt, holy, homy, hymn, inby, inly, into, limb, limn, limo, limy, lino, lint, liny, lion, loin.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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