page_title: 24/7 service
section_title: Commercial business
hierarchical_section_title: 24/7 service / Examples / Commercial business
caption_attribution_description: English: Logo for 24/7 News, an iHeartRadio digital channel
context_page_description: In commerce and industry, 24/7 or 24-7 service is service that is available at any time and usually, every day. An alternate orthography for the numerical part includes 24×7. The numerals stand for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week". Less commonly used, 24/7/52 and 24/7/365 service make it clear that service is available every day of the year.
  Synonyms include round-the-clock service, especially in British English, and nonstop service, but the latter can also refer to other things, such as public transport services which go between two stations without stopping.
  The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as "twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week; constantly". It lists its first reference to 24/7 to be from a 1983 story in the US magazine Sports Illustrated in which Louisiana State University player Jerry Reynolds describes his jump shot in just such a way: 24-7-365.
context_section_description: 24/7 service might be offered by a supermarket, convenience store, ATM, automated online assistant, filling station, restaurant, concierge services or a staffed datacenter, or a staffing company that specializes in providing nurses since often nurses cover shifts 24/7 at hospital which are open 24/7. 24/7 services may also include taxicabs, security services, and in densely populated urban areas, construction crews.
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