on an irregular basis

1. 1.

   in an irregular manner

   “her letters arrived irregularly”

   Synonymsirregularly

Questions about on an irregular basis

What does on an irregular basis mean?

on an irregular basis means "in an irregular manner".

What is another word for on an irregular basis?

Close synonyms include irregularly. 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 on an irregular basis a common word?

on an irregular basis 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.