for 24 hours

1. 1.

   without stopping

   “she worked around the clock”

   Synonymsaround the clockround the clock

Questions about for 24 hours

What does for 24 hours mean?

for 24 hours means "without stopping".

What is another word for for 24 hours?

Close synonyms include around the clock, 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 for 24 hours a common word?

for 24 hours 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.