bi-monthly

English translation: occurring every two months or occurring twice a month

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English term or phrase:	bi-monthly
Selected answer:	occurring every two months or occurring twice a month
Entered by:	Maria Chmelarova

04:01 Mar 15, 2005

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English term or phrase: bi-monthly

Now how many times we publish if we are publishing a magazine (or newsletter, or whatever) if the magazine is bi-monthly. Twice a month (24 issues a year)? or every other month (6 issues a year)?
Dics are very ambiguous about this (at least ones I got).

humbird

occurring every two months or occurring twice a month

Explanation:
that is in Webster's dictionary
some web sites:www.californiamortgagerate.net: "Instead of you making your loan payment once a month, your checking account is debided for one-half of this amount every two weeks. Instead of 12 monthly payments, you are making 24 half payments....
or www.cbabook.org : " Six times a year members and subscribers receive their own trade magazine....

You'll see, it is some problem with understanding what does it mean bi-monthly ....
Personaly I woud take first option, because we'll get payed bi-weekly, twice a month. Don't we? But, I might be wrong again.

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Maria Chmelarova
Local time: 02:11

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In other words eve OED or MeriiamWebster doesn't know. This is very frustrating. But it is not your fault, pretty.
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4 +11

every other month

@caduceus (X)

4 +4

occurring every two months or occurring twice a month

Maria Chmelarova

5 +2

every 2 months (6 issues yearly)

swisstell

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peer agreement (net): +2

every 2 months (6 issues yearly)

Explanation:
as otherwise it would be "twice monthly"

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swisstell
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Local time: 08:11
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peer agreement (net): +11

every other month

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semimonthly = twice a month

http://www.dictionary.net/bimonthly

@caduceus (X)
United States
Local time: 00:11
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Explanation:
I understand your question better now, there's a lot of contradictory information out there (such as the two examples below), but bi-monthly is "once every other month" and semi-monthly means twice a month.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: 1bi·month·ly
Pronunciation: (")bI-'m&n(t)th-lE
Function: adjective
1 : occurring every two months
2 : occurring twice a month : SEMIMONTHLY
usage see BI-

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This calculator will show you how much you will save if you make 1/2 of your mortgage payment every two weeks instead of making a full mortgage payment once a month. In effect, you will be making one extra mortgage payment per year -- without hardly noticing the additional cash outflow. But, as you're about to discover, you will certainly notice the "increased" cash flow that will occur when you pay your mortgage off way ahead of schedule!
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CAPA/UCF Sample Set 9
... the annual interest rate and the number of times it is compounded during the year (bi-monthly means 2 times per month). ...capa.math.ucf.edu/CAPA/sample9.htm - 26k - Cached - More from this site

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occurring every two months or occurring twice a month

Maria Chmelarova
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Native speaker of: Slovak

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In other words eve OED or MeriiamWebster doesn't know. This is very frustrating. But it is not your fault, pretty.

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