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quarter

[kwawr-ter] / ˈkwɔr tər /


NOUN
25 cent coin
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VERB
divide into four equal parts
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Analysts are expecting the company to report its first quarter of negative free cash flow when it announces its second-quarter earnings Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The group’s key fashion and leather goods division recorded quarterly sales of 8.9 billion euros, up 1% on year, also improving from the 2% decline it logged in the preceding quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

LVMH, the world's top luxury group, said Monday that sales growth accelerated in the second quarter as it beat analyst expectations with stable net profit in the first half of the year.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

A repeat of high equipment spending is likely in the second quarter.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

“That’s what your quarter was for,” Mother told him.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

They might also wow investors by raising their own expectations for coming quarters, or even for several years.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

“We want to see companies ideally that have an open-ended growth opportunity in front of them,” for several quarters, or even for several years, Nelson said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

That impact will make itself felt in the business in coming quarters, said Zinsner.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

After the war began it stepped up shipments via pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, which has allowed it export some three quarters of its pre-war level.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

During the six months prior to the dinner at Jefferson’s quarters, Madison went through a conversion process, or perhaps a reconversion, from the religion of nationalism to the old revolutionary faith of Virginia.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

Instead of Bath, Manueli turned out for Harlequins - a team who play in the famous quartered shirt but in south east Melbourne, rather than south west London.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2025

Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2024

The British army quartered itself in the colonists' meager homes, slept in their beds, burned their firewood, ate their scarce food, and confiscated their guns so they couldn't form a militia to fight back.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2023

Private Draper’s child, who hath for several days been quartered with us upon the Crepuscule, would not remove his shirt for washing.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

I filmed a video as they pulled the cheese apart, a quartering as messy as one in a medieval village square.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2025

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2025

Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.

From Science Daily Jan. 3, 2024

With serious face and a high-held, final flick he split each side in half, quartering the pig.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston




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