hourly

adj

1. (not-comparable)Occurring every hour.

   “There are hourly express buses.”

   “The [four] motors have a continuous rating of 144 h.p. and an hourly output of 180 h.p., giving a total hourly rating of 720 h.p. compared with the six-motored "Arlecchino's" 994 h.p.”

   “This service has suffered badly from Department for Transport-inspired cuts which reduced it from hourly to two-hourly. This, coupled with regular cancellations, has rendered the train service between the area's two biggest towns almost unusable.”

2. (not-comparable)Unsalaried, paid by the hour; (by extension) blue-collar.

adv

1. (not-comparable)At intervals of an hour.

   “Express buses depart hourly.”

   “Commencement of a two-hourly service pattern by GWR marked the return of regular services to Okehampton for the first time since their withdrawal in 1972. There are plans to extend this to hourly.”

noun

1. Something produced each hour.

   “She never reads her hourly report, but let her hourlies be fifteen minutes late and she raises a ruckus.”