24/7

See also: 24-7

English

Adverb

24/7 (not comparable)

Abbreviation of twenty-four seven.
- 2006, Scuba Diving (issues 1-6, page 49)
  He banned spearfishing wherever he could, started the first eco-moorings in the Caribbean, stopped others from coral- and shell-collecting, and had so much fun 24/7 that some unusually powerful people began to hang with him.
- 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times‎:
  At the same time that I used Woebot, I also volunteered for a crisis text service available 24/7 for people to message in times of need.

Translations

abbreviation of twenty-four seven

Chinese:
Mandarin: 一週7天，每天24小時／一周7天，每天24小时 (yīzhōu 7 tiān, měitiān 24 xiǎoshí)
Finnish: 24/7 (fi)
French: 24/24 7/7, 24 heures sur 24 (fr), h24
German: immerzu (de), rund um die Uhr (de)
Italian: 24/7
Maori: ao noa, po noa.
Russian: 24/7 (ru), круглые сутки (kruglyje sutki)
Spanish: 24/7
Swedish: 24/7 (sv), ständigt och jämt
Turkish: 7/24

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English 24/7, while the reading kaksi(kymmentä) neljä seitsemän is a calque of English twenty-four seven.

Pronunciation

Either as kaksikymmentä neljä seitsemän, kaksi neljä seitsemän or kaksi neljä seiska (the final i of kaksi may be omitted as usual in colloquial pronunciations)

Adverb

24/7

(informal) 24/7, twenty-four seven

Italian

Adverb

24/7

24/7