24/7 (twenty-four-seven)

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24/7 (twenty-four-seven)

Meaning

• constantly
• continually
• every day of the year.
• uninterrupted
• ceaseless
• unending
• ongoing
• endless
• at all times.

Example Sentences

1. Kincaid said the center will be open 24/7 and will employ 30 people.
2. The couple appears to be together twenty-four-seven.
3. The company provides 24/7 customer support.
4. Our team worked on the project twenty-four-seven to complete it on time.
5. We provide 24-7 internet access.
6. Running an enterprise is typically a twenty-four seven job.
7. Today, everyone definitely has a smartphone, which is currently the primary means of consuming news 247.
8. Parenthood is a scary, massive, and wonderful adventure, but during the starter years, there”s minimal time to relax. Parents don”t have the option to be off-duty. Their working hours are beyond compare since the baby requires them twenty-four-seven.
9. We have learning resources available 24/7, which reduces the nervousness of last-minute access just before the IELTS test.

Origin

People use the idiom “24/7” (or twenty-four-seven) to show something that occurs or is available all day and every day, with no breaks for holidays, weekends, or evenings. It lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The saying”s new variation is 24/7/365 or 24/7/366, which emphasizes that something happens every hour and every day of the year. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the first recorded use of “twenty-four-seven” was in a 1983 edition of Sports Illustrated. Jerry Reynolds, the U.S. basketball player, is credited with coining the term. He used it when describing his jump shot.

Subsequently, 24/7 was appropriated into the language as shorthand for constant(ly) or continual(ly). It was quickly adopted in the business world as a catchy way to describe services operating around the clock. With the advent of online business, the concept took on new relevance by the end of the twentieth century.

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