around the clock

1. 1.

   without stopping

   “she worked around the clock”

   Synonymsfor 24 hoursround the clock

Questions about around the clock

What does around the clock mean?

around the clock means "without stopping".

What is another word for around the clock?

Close synonyms include for 24 hours, round the clock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is around the clock a common word?

around the clock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.