"twenty-four seven" meaning in English

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Adverb

Etymology: Shortened from "twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week". Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} twenty-four seven (not comparable)
  1. 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Designates a round-the-clock service, typically including holidays, as might be offered by a supermarket, ATM, gas station, concierge service or manned data center. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: all the time, constantly, continuously, non-stop, twenty-four hours a day, 24/7, 24-7, twenty-four/seven Derived forms: twenty-five/eight [colloquial] Related terms: 24/5, 24/7/365, around the clock
    Sense id: en-twenty-four_seven-en-adv-YAn1WaNg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 93 7 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 92 8
  2. (colloquial) Constantly, without interruption. Tags: colloquial, not-comparable Translations (constantly): 一週7天,每天24小時 (Chinese Mandarin), 一周7天 (Chinese Mandarin), 每天24小时 (yīzhōu qī tiān, měitiān èrshísì xiǎoshí) (Chinese Mandarin), vierentwintig uur op vierentwintig (Dutch), zeven dagen op zeven [Belgium] (Dutch), vierentwintig uur per dag [Netherlands] (Dutch), eenmaal vierentwintig uur [Suriname] (Dutch), dag en nacht (Dutch), kaksikymmentäneljä seitsemän (Finnish), vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre, sept jours sur sept (French), tutti i giorni 24 ore su 24 (Italian), tutti i giorni ventiquatt'ore su ventiquattro (Italian), dwadzieścia cztery na dobę (Polish), dwadzieścia cztery godziny na dobę (Polish), siedem dni w tygodniu (Polish), todo dia (Portuguese), o dia todo (Portuguese), o dia inteiro (Portuguese), два́дцать четы́ре часа́ в су́тки, семь дней в неде́лю (dvádcatʹ četýre časá v sútki, semʹ dnej v nedélju) (Russian), dygnet runt (Swedish), 24 trên 7 (Vietnamese), hai mươi tư trên bảy (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-twenty-four_seven-en-adv-lxxzE~7f Disambiguation of 'constantly': 2 98

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          "sense": "constantly",
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      "sense": "constantly",
      "word": "一週7天,每天24小時"
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      "word": "一周7天"
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      "sense": "constantly",
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      "word": "eenmaal vierentwintig uur"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "constantly",
      "word": "dag en nacht"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "constantly",
      "word": "kaksikymmentäneljä seitsemän"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "constantly",
      "word": "vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre, sept jours sur sept"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "constantly",
      "word": "tutti i giorni 24 ore su 24"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "constantly",
      "word": "tutti i giorni ventiquatt'ore su ventiquattro"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "constantly",
      "word": "dwadzieścia cztery na dobę"
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      "sense": "constantly",
      "word": "dwadzieścia cztery godziny na dobę"
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      "sense": "constantly",
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      "sense": "constantly",
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      "sense": "constantly",
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      "sense": "constantly",
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      "sense": "constantly",
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