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From quarter +‎ -ly (adjectival).

quarterly (not comparable)

1. Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.

   quarterly rent payments

   • 2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.

2. (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.

   The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.

• quarterly court

• quarter day

quarterly (plural quarterlies)

1. A periodical publication that appears four times per year.
   • 2013 February 22, Scott Zamost and Drew Griffin, “FBI battling ‘rash of sexting’ among its employees”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “We’re hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors … you can’t do this stuff,” FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN this week.

From quarter +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

quarterly (not comparable)

1. Once every quarter year (three months).
2. (heraldry) In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
   • 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:

     It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […] .

   • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, pages 476-477:

     Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and Belfast in the fourth; and overall is a gold inescutcheon (a small shield placed in the centre of the large shield) charged with the red left hand of Ulster.

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