0 one of four equal or almost equal parts of something; ¼: --
I get an electricity bill every quarter.
There was a fall in unemployment in the second quarter of the year.
I'll meet you at a quarter past five.
It was a quarter to six when I left.
an hour and three-quarters
I was there three-quarters of an hour.
Under a quarter of people questioned said that they were happily married.
1 in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents --
2 an area of a town where a particular group of people live or work or where a particular activity happens: --
This is the bustling commercial quarter of the city.
3 one or more people who provide help, information, or a particular reaction to something but who are not usually named: --
4 a room or house that has been provided, especially for servants or soldiers and their families, to live in: --
5 the fact of being kind towards or forgiving an enemy or opponent: --
He gave no quarter to anyone that disappointed him.
At least one national parliamentary election occurred in each of these quarters, but only one election was held in most of them.
Farmers may be aware that recovered quarters are at higher risk of infection.
R 271 samples were taken at calving, and 8 samples were taken from quarters that entered the population after purchase of animals.
During the study, the farmers were informed of the infection status of all quarters every 3 weeks.
Resistance to this project has been widespread, as critics from all quarters deny the availability of space between the two views.
In many quarters the idea that large numbers of adults might learn to communicate in just one foreign language was already too ambitious by half.
The dramatic quarters of narrative are where we're lingering now in this, in our, modernity.
Antiimperialism was justified in some radical quarters by sound racialist theory.
