24HOUR
24-hour: translation
24-hourUKUSadjective[before noun] (alsotwenty-four hour)
►open or available all day and all night without closing or stopping:»
Share trading is now a 24-hour industry.
»a24-hour emergency line/helpline/hotline
»Responding to market pressure, they are offering 24-hour free telephone access.
»He recalls the scepticism that greeted the notion of 24-hour opening for US supermarkets.
►relating to one day, or happening only on one day:»
The service can only be used once in a 24-hour period.
a 24-hour stoppage/strike»Unified strike action spread over three twenty-four hour stoppages.
→See also24-HOUR CLOCK(Cf. ↑24-hour clock),24-HOUR SOCIETY(Cf. ↑24-hour society)