EVERY QUARTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does every quarter mean? 

• EVERY QUARTER (adverb)
  The adverb EVERY QUARTER has 1 sense:

1. in three month intervals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERY QUARTER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In three month intervals

Synonyms:

every quarter; quarterly

Context example:

interest is compounded quarterly

 Context examples 

Behind it all, however, came that low-pitched, deep-toned hum, which seemed to come from every quarter and to fill the whole air.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far away we could hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour.

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

And she is laying by: she goes every quarter to the bank at Millcote.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so surprising, and so astonishing! it looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were darting at the same time from every quarter of the sky.

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

We have been in this room two hours, and Mrs. Hudson has made some change in that figure eight times, or once in every quarter of an hour.

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

Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I earn at typewriting.

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

As to her money, she first secreted it in odd corners, wrapped in a rag or an old curl-paper; but some of these hoards having been discovered by the housemaid, Eliza, fearful of one day losing her valued treasure, consented to intrust it to her mother, at a usurious rate of interest—fifty or sixty per cent.; which interest she exacted every quarter, keeping her accounts in a little book with anxious accuracy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)