semimonthly
semimonthly Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Occurring, done, or published twice a month.
"The company switched from a weekly to a semimonthly payroll schedule, issuing checks on the first and fifteenth of each month."
• adverb
Twice a month.
"The neighborhood association meets semimonthly to discuss community maintenance and upcoming local events."
• noun
A periodical, magazine, or journal published twice a month.
"The literary review began as a quarterly journal before expanding into a popular semimonthly."
Word Nuance & Usage
"Semimonthly" strictly means occurring twice a month, whereas "bimonthly" is famously ambiguous (meaning either every two months or twice a month). It also differs slightly from "biweekly" (every two weeks), as a semimonthly schedule yields 24 events per year while a biweekly schedule yields 26.