quarternoun
uk/ˈkwɔː.tər/us/ˈkwɑː.t̬ɚ/quarter noun (FOURTH PART)
A2 [ C ] one of four equal or almost equal parts of something; ¼:
15 minutes:
15 minutes before two, three, etc.:
15 minutes after two, three, etc.:
[ C ] one of four periods of time into which a year is divided for financial calculations, such as for profits or taxes:
[ C ] one of four periods in a game of American football and other ball sports
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- The fall in the value of the yen might result in a fractional increase in interest rates of perhaps a quarter of one percent.
- Road accident victims make up almost a quarter of the hospital's patients.
- He inherited a quarter of a million pounds on his mother's death.
- A quarter of the contents of an average family's dustbin is organic matter.
- A quart is so called because it is a quarter of a gallon.
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Fractions
- complex fraction
- deci-
- decimal place
- eighteenth
- eighth
- fifth
- fiftieth
- fraction
- improper fraction
- millionth
- mixed fraction
- proper fraction
- quadrant
- quartile
- seventh
- sixteenth
- sixth
- thirtieth
- thousandth
- three quarters
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quarter noun (COIN)
B2 [ C ] in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents
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North American money
- buck
- C-note
- cent
- dime
- dollar
- dollar sign
- G, g
- greenback
- nickel
- penny
- smacker
- toonie
- two bits
quarter noun (AREA)
C2 [ C ] an area of a town where a particular group of people live or work or where a particular activity happens:
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Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities
- arrondissement
- backstreets
- barrio
- block
- botanic garden
- concrete jungle
- council estate
- dormitory suburb
- estate
- exurb
- ghetto
- inner city
- precinct
- red-light district
- slum
- Speakers' Corner
- suburbia
- the outskirts
- town
- trading estate
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quarter noun (PEOPLE)
[ C ] one or more people who provide help, information, or a particular reaction to something but who are not usually named:
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Groups of people
- alliance
- an
- assemblage
- band
- bee
- corps
- crop
- galaxy
- gang
- ginger group
- group
- grouping
- stable
- think tank
- threesome
- throng
- tribe
- trio
- triumvirate
- wing
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quarter noun (PLACE TO LIVE)
a room or house that has been provided, especially for servants or soldiers and their families, to live in:
[ C ] Indian English a house or other place to live that has been provided by a company for an employee
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Houses & homes
- A-frame
- almshouse
- apartment
- apartment building
- apt
- flatlet
- flophouse
- garden apartment
- garden flat
- gated community
- prefab
- public housing
- pueblo
- Quonset hut
- ranch house
- two-up two-down
- villa
- walk-up
- wigwam
- workhouse
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quarter noun (FORGIVENESS)
[ U ] literary the fact of being kind towards or forgiving an enemy or opponent:
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Lenient & merciful
- charitable
- charitably
- charity
- clemency
- ease
- ease up/off
- easy
- go easy idiom
- have a heart! idiom
- heart
- lenient
- magnanimous
- merciful
- mercy
quarterverb
uk/ˈkwɔː.tər/us/ˈkwɑː.t̬ɚ/quarter verb (CUT INTO FOUR)
[ T often passive ] to cut something into four parts
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Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- branch
- breakdown
- disestablish
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- drift
- pull sth/sb apart
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- tear 1
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quarter verb (SOLDIER)
[ T usually passive, + adv/prep ] to send someone, especially soldiers, to live in a place:
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Accommodating people
- accommodate
- billet
- board
- board and lodging
- boarding and lodging
- camp
- fooding and lodging
- full board
- half board
- house
- modified American plan
- put
- put sb away
- put sb up
- rehouse
- resettle
- self-catering
- settle
- sleep
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