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28-785: The Hunts Point Cooperative Market is a 24/7 wholesale food market located on 60 acres (24 ha) in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx , New York City . The largest food distribution center of its kind in the world, it earns annual revenues of over $ 2 billion. Located at the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, which houses the Fulton Fish Market and a produce market, the Hunts Point Cooperative Market

56-506: A long arm is not the same as an extended arm ). Synonyms are also a source of euphemisms . Metonymy can sometimes be a form of synonymy: the White House is used as a synonym of the administration in referring to the U.S. executive branch under a specific president. Thus, a metonym is a type of synonym, and the word metonym is a hyponym of the word synonym . The analysis of synonymy, polysemy , hyponymy, and hypernymy

84-421: A $ 0.60 hourly increase for healthcare benefits. This strike was the first to occur at the market since 1986, though in 2012 opposing a 14 cent hourly increase and in 2015 opposing a $ 25-per-week raise, Local 202 threatened strikes in support of higher wage increases. This strike was the first major work stoppage of the year (a stoppage involving over 1000 workers). The market can be accessed from other boroughs via

112-586: A form of onoma ( ὄνομα 'name'). Synonyms are often from the different strata making up a language. For example, in English, Norman French superstratum words and Old English substratum words continue to coexist. Thus, today there exist synonyms like the Norman-derived people , liberty and archer , and the Saxon-derived folk , freedom and bowman . For more examples, see

140-748: A temporary basis, in order to clean and sanitize their establishments. After the widespread availability of vaccines, however, many such businesses have not returned to 24-hour service for a variety of reasons. Some proprietors in the United States originally blamed pandemic unemployment benefits for a lack of workers, yet employers still struggled to resume pre-pandemic hours after these programs were sunsetted, citing continued staff shortages and demands for better working conditions among jobseekers. Many businesses that were once broadly open for 24/7 operations only resumed such service across some of their establishments or have ended 24/7 operations altogether, as in

168-891: A way: 24-7-365. 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 . Public 24/7 services often include those provided by emergency medical providers , police , fire and emergency telephone numbers , such as 9-1-1 in North America. Transport services like airports , airlines , and ferry services, and in some cases trains and buses, may provide 24-hour service. Examples of public transport services operating 24/7 include

196-624: Is coinages , which may be motivated by linguistic purism . Thus, the English word foreword was coined to replace the Romance preface . In Turkish, okul was coined to replace the Arabic-derived mektep and mederese , but those words continue to be used in some contexts. Synonyms often express a nuance of meaning or are used in different registers of speech or writing. Various technical domains may employ synonyms to convey precise technical nuances. Some writers avoid repeating

224-612: Is service that is available at any time and usually, every day. An alternate orthography for the numerical part includes 24×7 (usually pronounced "twenty-four by seven"). The numerals stand for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week". Less commonly used, 24/7/52 (adding "52 weeks") and 24/7/365 service (adding "365 days") make it clear that service is available every day of the year. Synonyms include around-the-clock service (with/without hyphens) and all day every day , especially in British English , and nonstop service , but

252-571: Is a word , morpheme , or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous . The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be replaced by another in a sentence without changing its meaning. Words may often be synonymous in only one particular sense : for example, long and extended in

280-600: Is governed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The produce market alone is spread across 1,600 refrigerated diesel-powered trailers running 24/7, although the New York City Department of Transportation has implemented pilot programs and announced long-term plans to replace these units with electric or hybrid options. The Hunts Point Department of Public Safety, a private owned and operated public safety department, it

308-421: Is inherent to taxonomy and ontology in the information science senses of those terms. It has applications in pedagogy and machine learning , because they rely on word-sense disambiguation . The word is borrowed from Latin synōnymum , in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek synōnymon ( συνώνυμον ), composed of sýn ( σύν 'together, similar, alike') and - ōnym - ( -ωνυμ- ),

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336-554: Is the source for approximately 50 percent of the New York region’s meat. More than 50 independent wholesale food businesses located at the Market supply food to over 22 million people in the New York metropolitan area. Built in 1962 as a 40-acre facility with six buildings, the Market consists of seven large refrigerated/freezer buildings on 60 acres, with a total refrigerated space of approximately 700,000 square feet (65,000 m). It

364-499: The Bruckner Expressway ( Interstate 278 ) and Sheridan Boulevard ( New York State Route 895 ). It is serviced by rail via CSX Transportation 's Oak Point Yard and gets around 2700 cars per year. In 2012 the market received a $ 10 million federal grant to improve rail operations. Currently, rail cars and trucks share unloading docks, causing conflicts. The rail improvements are part of a $ 332.5 million major renovation to

392-1477: The New York City Subway , Staten Island Railway , PATH , PATCO , the Copenhagen Metro , and the Red Line and Blue Line of the Chicago "L" . Industrial and manufacturing facilities—especially those that operate near or at capacity, or which depend upon processes (such as production lines ) that are costly to suspend—often provide 24/7 services. Similarly, utilities generally must provide multiple 24/7 services. For instance, an electricity provider will handle outage reports 24/7 and dispatch emergency repair technicians 24/7, in addition to monitoring electrical infrastructure and producing electricity at all times. The same applies to telecommunications and internet service providers. Many crisis centers and crisis hotlines provide 24/7 services. Many 24/7 services operate continuously at all times with complete shift staff. 24/7 services that can utilize virtual offices , such as call centers , may employ daytime agents in alternating time zones . In some cases, 24/7 services may be temporarily unavailable under certain circumstances. Such scenarios may include scheduled maintenance , upgrades or renovation , emergency repair , and injunction . 24/7 services which depend upon

420-580: The Sunday trading laws prevent many stores from truly opening 24/7, but they sometimes advertise as such. Some core services such as filling stations are exempt from the law requiring them to close. A campaign against changing the law was supported by many bodies, including the Church of England , the Church in Wales , and many secular bodies in an effort called Keep Sunday Special . Synonym A synonym

448-404: The context long time or extended time are synonymous, but long cannot be used in the phrase extended family . Synonyms with exactly the same meaning share a seme or denotational sememe , whereas those with inexactly similar meanings share a broader denotational or connotational sememe and thus overlap within a semantic field . The former are sometimes called cognitive synonyms and

476-730: The list of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English . Loanwords are another rich source of synonyms, often from the language of the dominant culture of a region. Thus, most European languages have borrowed from Latin and ancient Greek, especially for technical terms, but the native terms continue to be used in non-technical contexts. In East Asia , borrowings from Chinese in Japanese , Korean , and Vietnamese often double native terms. In Islamic cultures, Arabic and Persian are large sources of synonymous borrowings. For example, in Turkish , kara and siyah both mean 'black',

504-511: The Cooperative and NYCEDC work together to develop a long-term plan for a larger, modernized facility in the Bronx. To this end, the City and State have each agreed to contribute capital resources and to work with the Cooperative to secure additional third-party sources of funding. In January 2021, over 1400 workers at the market arranged a strike in support of a $ 1-per-hour wage increase and

532-505: The Germanic term only as a noun, but has Latin and Greek adjectives: hand , manual (L), chiral (Gk); heat , thermal (L), caloric (Gk). Sometimes the Germanic term has become rare, or restricted to special meanings: tide , time / temporal , chronic . Many bound morphemes in English are borrowed from Latin and Greek and are synonyms for native words or morphemes: fish , pisci- (L), ichthy- (Gk). Another source of synonyms

560-470: The case of Walmart . 24/7 workplaces can put employees under conditions that limit their personal life choices and development. Calls for a rehumanisation of the 24/7 workplace have therefore been voiced. Some have also remarked on the "collective mania" especially in the US that takes a sort of pride in the "work at all times" attitude exemplified by the 24/7 concept. In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland,

588-497: The event of disruption, and minimum standards of overall reliability. Critical infrastructure may be supported by failover systems, electric generators , and satellite communications. In the event of catastrophic disaster, some 24/7 services prepare entirely redundant, parallel infrastructures, often in other geographic regions. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many stores ended 24/7 operations, ostensibly on

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616-631: The former being a native Turkish word, and the latter being a borrowing from Persian. In Ottoman Turkish , there were often three synonyms: water can be su (Turkish), âb (Persian), or mâ (Arabic): "such a triad of synonyms exists in Ottoman for every meaning, without exception". As always with synonyms, there are nuances and shades of meaning or usage. In English, similarly, there often exist Latin (L) and Greek (Gk) terms synonymous with Germanic ones: thought , notion (L), idea (Gk); ring , circle (L), cycle (Gk). English often uses

644-444: The latter can also refer to other things, such as public transport services which go between two stations without stopping. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) 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

672-502: The latter, near-synonyms, plesionyms or poecilonyms. Some lexicographers claim that no synonyms have exactly the same meaning (in all contexts or social levels of language) because etymology , orthography , phonic qualities, connotations , ambiguous meanings, usage , and so on make them unique. Different words that are similar in meaning usually differ for a reason: feline is more formal than cat ; long and extended are only synonyms in one usage and not in others (for example,

700-669: The market that is under negotiation. In 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York would spend $ 150 million over 12 years to modernize the market. At that time, the market had 115 private wholesalers at the bazaar employing around 8,000 people. It is also the eastern terminus of the MTA 's Bx6 , Bx6-SBS and Bx46 routes, but the Bx6-SBS is slated to no longer run here after 2024, when it will be rerouted to serve Soundview . 24/7 service In commerce and industry, 24/7 or 24-7 service (usually pronounced "twenty-four seven")

728-406: The physical presence of employees at a given location may also be interrupted when a minimum number of employees cannot be present due to scenarios such as extreme weather , death threats , natural disasters , or mandatory evacuation . Some 24/7 services close during major holidays . 24/7 services often employ complex schemes that ensure their resistance to potential disruption, resilience in

756-422: The same word in close proximity, and prefer to use synonyms: this is called elegant variation . Many modern style guides criticize this. Synonyms can be any part of speech , as long as both words belong to the same part of speech. Examples: Synonyms are defined with respect to certain senses of words: pupil as the aperture in the iris of the eye is not synonymous with student . Similarly, he expired means

784-794: Was formed in 1985 to patrol the Hunts Point Market. Currently about 45 Special Patrolmen are employed at the department. In 2011, the City of New York and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) made significant headway in their ongoing efforts to support the Hunts Point Market in the South Bronx . In June, they reached an agreement with the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Cooperative to extend its lease for another three years, while

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