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MONTH BY MONTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does month by month mean?
• MONTH BY MONTH (adverb)
The adverb MONTH BY MONTH has 1 sense:
1. for an indefinite number of months
Familiarity information: MONTH BY MONTH used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
For an indefinite number of months
Context example:
month by month, the betrayal gnawed at his heart
Context examples
Month by month the slaughter went on till the thirty poems were published, and month by month he received a check for those which had appeared in the current number.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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