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base years

base years is the plural of base year.

Meaning of base year

Noun

base year (plural base years)

  1. a year chosen for comparison with other years, in statistical analysis and various indices, such as a price index. It usually has an arbitrary value of 100 to make percentage comparisons easier. A new base year can be chosen as the years progress.

Questions about base years

What is base years the plural of?
Base years is the plural of base year.

Words near base years in the dictionary

  1. base wallah
  2. base wallahs
  3. base yard
  4. base yards
  5. base year
  6. base years
  7. base-2
  8. base-ball
  9. base-born
  10. base-burner
  11. base-burners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: base years (page history and authors); base year (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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