HOURLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hourly mean? 

• HOURLY (adjective)
  The adjective HOURLY has 1 sense:

1. occurring every hour or payable by the hour

  Familiarity information: HOURLY used as an adjective is very rare.

• HOURLY (adverb)
  The adverb HOURLY has 1 sense:

1. every hour; by the hour

  Familiarity information: HOURLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOURLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring every hour or payable by the hour

Context example:

hourly pay

Similar:

periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)

Derivation:

hour (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)

• HOURLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Every hour; by the hour

Context example:

daily, hourly, I grew stronger

Pertainym:

hourly (occurring every hour or payable by the hour)

 Context examples 

At present, and until something turns up (which I am, I may say, hourly expecting), I have nothing to bestow but advice.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was just an ordinary knock, such as is given hourly by thousands of gentlemen, but it made the Professor's heart and mine beat loudly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For example, hourly, annual, or commission.

(Employee Salary Type, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

I shall pray for you hourly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I get reports almost hourly from the government, and it is certain that nowhere in Europe is there any sign of trouble.

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

He had felt her as an hourly evil, which was so much the worse, as there seemed no chance of its ceasing but with life; she seemed a part of himself that must be borne for ever.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Her ignorance is hourly flattery.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

If that were so, my sacrifice was nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and every poor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

More was not expected by one who, while seeing all the obligation and expediency of submission and forbearance, saw also with sympathetic acuteness of feeling all that must be hourly grating to a girl like Susan.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)