Meaning & use

biweekly

adjective·Everyday

Happening every two weeks, or, less commonly, twice within a single week.

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The newsletter is published biweekly, so subscribers receive a new issue every other Friday.

Our team holds a biweekly meeting to review progress on the ongoing project.

A note on using this word

Biweekly is genuinely ambiguous between 'every two weeks' and 'twice a week,' so writers often clarify with a phrase like 'every other week.'

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