By The Hour

Definition: By The Hour

By The Hour

Adverb

1. Every hour; "daily, hourly, I grew stronger".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: By The Hour

Borrowing

Hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.

Crosswords: By The Hour

There's two things that just can't be rushed - anyone who is paid by the hour, and an office-building elevator. (Kolchak: The Night Stalker; writing credit: David Chase; Rudolph Borchert)

We don't rent out rooms by the hour. (Identity; writing credit: Michael Cooney)

Do you charge by the hour or by the satisfaction? (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)

Getting thinner by the hour. (Extra Ordinary; performing artist: Better Than Ezra)

Are losing control by the hour. (Land Of Confusion; performing artist: Genesis)

Cupid by the hour sends (Wishing Well (A Tone Poem); performing artist: Terence Trent D'arby)

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Jake the telegraph clerk, who was too small to be a soldier, had talked to her by the hour. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He hired a cabriolet by the hour, jumped in, and drove at random towards the Latin quarter.

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Political Economy

MEXICO

This is why unions jealously defend the legal ban on hiring and paying wages by the hour. (references)

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Finnish

tuntipalkalla, tunneittain (hourly). (various references)

German

stundenweise (every hour, part time). (various references)

Hungarian

órabér alapján fizetik (to be paid by the hour). (various references)

Pig Latin

ybay ethay ourhay

Swedish

timvis, per timme. (various references)

Turkmen 

зasowoя (r) (by the clock). (various references)

Xhosa

ngeyure (Hour). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: bother, brothy, outbye, theory.

-4 letters: berth, borty, bothy, broth, brute, buret, buteo, buyer, herby, other, outby, outer, outre, rebut, rebuy, route, routh, throb, throe, toyer, tuber, turbo, tuyer, youth.

-5 letters: beth, bhut, bore, bort, both, bout, brut, buhr, buoy, bury, bute, byre, byte, euro, herb, hero, heth, hoer, hour, hurt, hyte, obey, orby.

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