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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | выходящий раз в две недели или два раза в неделю | biweekly (adj 1) (fortnightly) двухнедельный; выходящий (и т. п.) раз в две недели. 2) (twice a week) выходящий (и т. п.) два раза в неделю. • adv 1) раз в две недели. 2) два раза в неделю. ORD Alexander Demidov) |
| busin. | город, в котором один или два раза в неделю проводятся выездные ярмарки | market town |
| Makarov. | она тренируется два или три раза в неделю | she exercises two or three times a week |
| gen. | периодическое издание, выходящее раз в две недели или два раза в неделю | biweekly (IMPORTANT: Many people are puzzled about bimonthly and biweekly, which are often ambiguous because they are formed from two different senses of bi-: "occurring every two" and "occurring two times." This ambiguity has been in existence for nearly a century and a half and cannot be eliminated by the dictionary. The chief difficulty is that many users of these words assume that others know exactly what they mean, and they do not bother to make their context clear. So if you need bimonthly or biweekly, you should leave some clues in your context to the sense of bi- you mean. And if you need the meaning "twice a," you can substitute semi- for bi-.  merriam-webster.com) |
| gen. | происходящий или выходящий раз в две недели | fortnightly |
| gen. | раз в две недели или два раза в неделю | biweekly (1. Occurring twice per week (this is true no matter what Dan or his English professor mom says. My mom was a book editor and she looked it up in the dictionary. I don't care that she originally thought it was definition #2. She found it in Merriam Webster, the dictionary Dan recommended). 2. (Occ.) Every two weeks. The College of William and Mary's Flat Hat newspaper is published biweekly, allowing me to read it twice every week. Because biweekly first and foremost means twice per week, I do not owe Dan any money. UD Alexander Demidov) |