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1. A fourth part of something.Examples: "I ate a quarter of the pizza."; "A majority of companies in the S&P 500 have at least one woman on their boards, but only about a quarter have more than two, according to a study from PwC."; "For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem."Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, ¼broadlycountableuncountable

2. A fourth part of something.Examples: "One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more."countablehistoricaluncountable

3. A fourth part of something.countablehistoricaluncountable

4. A fourth part of something.Examples: "And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...]."countablehistoricaluncountable

5. A fourth part of something.Examples: "The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data."; "The Shanghai-based company reported Wednesday that net profit soared 246% to 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the average analyst estimate of 12.62 billion yuan ($1.7 billion), according to LSEG data."countableuncountable

6. A fourth part of something.Examples: "An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces."countableuncountable