month by month

1. 1.

   for an indefinite number of months

   “month by month, the betrayal gnawed at his heart”

Questions about month by month

What does month by month mean?

month by month means "for an indefinite number of months".

Is month by month a common word?

month by month 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.