round the clock

1. 1.

   without stopping

   “she worked around the clock”

   Synonymsaround the clockfor 24 hours

Questions about round the clock

What does round the clock mean?

round the clock means "without stopping".

What is another word for round the clock?

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

round 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.