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fortnight

[ UK /fˈɔːtna‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔɹtˌnaɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a period of fourteen consecutive days
    most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight

How To Use fortnight In A Sentence

  • This green bucket lark is a joke, and I am sure that every large family in Bolton will agree when I say that I can fill this in a couple of days, and you think that I can go a fortnight between collections?
  • Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
  • a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine
  • In addition to weekly episodes of our human rights broadcast, we were also producing 'fortnightly' (a word we had picked up from Anita and begun to employ widely!) editions of Body Shop Television -- a unique, in-store television magazine devoted to internal communication among Body Shop employees and managers. Rory O'Connor: There Was Nothing Like This Dame
  • The first fortnight will see closure of Slade Lane Junction to replace signalling equipment and trackwork, including switches and crossings.
  • Bury council hopes that cutting down from fortnightly collections of general waste will encourage recycling and save on landfill tax and treatment costs. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the US, many people do this by making 26 fortnightly payments of half their mortgage repayment, instead of twelve monthly payments.
  • The delegation also discussed the problems of weeklies and fortnightlies with the minister.
  • After the lapse of a fortnight, Hepburn, candidate for congressman-at-large, declined to accept because "it is quite apparent that a very large portion of the Republicans, owing to the unfortunate circumstances which have come to light since the adjournment of the convention, are not disposed to accept its conclusion as an authoritative utterance of the party." [ A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • The company publishes a fortnightly bulletin for its staff.
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