around the clock

See also: around-the-clock

English

Alternative forms

• round the clock

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

around the clock

1. (duration, idiomatic) All the time, or seemingly all the time; constantly.

   They worked around the clock to finish the project on time.

Translations

all the time

• Azerbaijani: bütün sutka, günün iyirmi dörd saatı
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夜以繼日 (zh), 夜以继日 (zh) (yèyǐjìrì), 晝夜 (zh), 昼夜 (zh) (zhòu-yè)

• Finnish: kellon ympäri; tehdä pyöreitä päiviä (work around the clock)
• French: en permanence (fr), tout le temps (fr), tous les jours que Dieu fait (fr), vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre (fr)
• German: rund um die Uhr (de)

• Hungarian: szakadatlanul (hu)
• Italian: ventiquattrore (it), ininterrottamente (it), di continuo, giorno e notte
• Japanese: 四六時中 (ja) (しろくじちゅう, shirokujichū)
• Polish: non stop, przez całą dobę, na okrągło
• Portuguese: o tempo inteiro, a todo instante
• Russian: кру́глые су́тки f pl (krúglyje sútki), круглосу́точно (ru) (kruglosútočno), два́дцать четы́ре часа́ в су́тки (dvádcatʹ četýre časá v sútki)
• Spanish: noche y día (es), día y noche
• Swedish: dygnet runt (sv)

Adjective

around the clock (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) All the time, or seemingly all the time; constantly

   The around-the-clock workers tried to finish the project.

Synonyms

• day and night

See also

• 24/7
• at all hours
• dawn to dusk
• work like a dog