quarters
kwawr terz
- n housing available for people to live in
he found quarters for his family
I visited his bachelor quarters - n one of four equal parts
- n a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- n (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- n a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
- n one of four periods into which the school year is divided
- n a fourth part of a year; three months
- n one of the four major division of the compass
- n a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- n a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- n a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
he fed four quarters into the slot machine - n an unspecified person
- n the rear part of a ship
- n piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
- n clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
- v provide housing for (military personnel)
- v pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- v divide into quarters
- v divide by four; divide into quarters
- Perhaps that question is premature since Canada's economy grew in the third-quarter, so it escaped the technical definition of a recession, which requires two consecutive quarters .
- After that, the two worst quarters for GDP growth since the BEA began keeping track of quarterly numbers in 1947 have been -7.