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week | multiweek |

As a noun week

is any period of seven consecutive days.

As an adjective multiweek is

extending over multiple weeks.

week

English

Noun

(wikipedia week) (en noun)
  • Any period of seven consecutive days.
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    • , title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21580518-terrible-name-interesting-trend-rise-smart-beta The rise of smart beta] , passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
  • A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
  • A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.(rfex)
  • Seven days after ((sometimes) before) a specified date.

    • Derived terms

    * bush week * for weeks on end * hell week * Holy Week * weekend * weekly

    See also

    * * fortnight * month * nundinal cycle * year

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    multiweek

    English

    Adjective

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  • Extending over multiple weeks
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 2, author=James P. Othmer, title=The Summer We Went Broke, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=FOR the first 15 summers of my life, my family took multiweek vacations on the Jersey Shore and in Montauk. }}