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Time sliced into sixty-minute installments, the heartbeat of wages and forecasts.
means Happening once every hour, or measured and paid by the hour rather than the year.
from From Old French hore, from Latin hora, from Greek hora meaning a season or time of day, plus the rhythmic -ly that makes adverbs march.
Wage classHourly workers clock in; salaried ones just disappear into meetings.
Greek rootsHora once meant any defined span, not strictly sixty minutes.
Weather stapleThe hourly forecast: optimism updated every sixty minutes.