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Definition of Round-the-clock
1. Adjective. At all times. "Around-the-clock nursing care"
Definition of Round-the-clock
1. Adjective. Continuously, all day long. From the concept that it happens while the hands of the clock go all the way around. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Round-the-clock
Literary usage of Round-the-clock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Days at the Factories: Or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain by George Dodd (1843)
"... as we pass round the clock. There is a horizontal bar of wood extending from
the clock on each side to the wall opposite to it; and on this bar is ..."
2. The First Steps in Number by George Albert Wentworth, E. M. Reed (1898)
"When the short hand has gone half-way round the clock, how many times has the
long hand been round the clock ? ..."
3. The First Steps in Number by George Albert Wentworth, E. M. Reed (1885)
"When the short hand has gone half-way round the clock, how many times has the
long hand been round the clock ? When the short hand has been a fourth round ..."
4. Chinese Views of Future Warfare by Michael Pillsbury (1997)
"All-Weather and Round-the-Clock Air Strikes • The performance of airborne
fire-control-radar is being improved, and night-vision devices such as infrared ..."
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