24/7

See also: 24-7

English

Adverb

24/7 (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of twenty-four seven.
   • 2006, Scuba Diving (issues 1-6, page 49)

     He banned spearfishing wherever he could, started the first eco-moorings in the Caribbean, stopped others from coral- and shell-collecting, and had so much fun 24/7 that some unusually powerful people began to hang with him.

Translations

abbreviation of twenty-four seven

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一週7天，每天24小時, 一周7天，每天24小时 (yīzhōu 7 tiān, měitiān 24 xiǎoshí)

• Finnish: 24/7 (fi)
• French: 24/24 7/7, 24 heures sur 24 (fr), h24
• German: immerzu (de), rund um die Uhr (de)

• Italian: 24/7
• Maori: ao noa, po noa.
• Russian: 24/7 (ru), круглые сутки (kruglyje sutki)
• Spanish: 24/7
• Swedish: 24/7 (sv)
• Turkish: 7/24

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English 24/7, while the reading kaksi(kymmentä) neljä seitsemän is a calque of English twenty-four seven.

Pronunciation

Either as kaksikymmentä neljä seitsemän, kaksi neljä seitsemän or kaksi neljä seiska (the final i of kaksi may be omitted as usual in colloquial pronunciations)

Adverb

24/7

1. (informal) 24/7, twenty-four seven

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Italian

Adverb

24/7

1. 24/7