twenty-four hours a day
Never taking breaks
Twenty-four hours a day means continuously, without interruption—all day and all night.
The phrase emphasizes constant availability or unceasing activity: The clinic is staffed twenty-four hours a day, She worries about her children twenty-four hours a day.
Often combined with seven days a week as twenty-four seven or 24/7.
- clockDevice displaying time
- work shiftScheduled period of duty
- alwaysAt all times
- hourSixty-minute span
- unceasinglyWithout ever stopping
nonstop · vigilance · minute · security patrol · perpetually · delivery services · night watch · burning the midnight oil · data centers · emergency services · endlessly · graveyard shift · day · round-the-clock · around the clock · tirelessly · never sleeps · surveillance systems
twenty-four hours a daypart-time
Limited work schedule
occasionally · intermittently · sometimes · sporadically · periodically
twenty-four hours a dayby appointment only
limited hours · unavailable · closed · inaccessible · restricted access