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multidecade

multidecade adjective: extending over multiple decades.

Adjective

multidecade (not comparable)

  1. Extending over multiple decades.
    • With the pound at a multidecade low and British banks requiring ever-larger injections of taxpayer cash, it is no wonder that observers have started to refer to London as “Reykjavik-on-Thames.”2009 January 22, Julia Werdigier, Nelson D. Schwartz, “The Falling Pound Raises Fears of Nationalization”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2012
    Synonyms:
    decadeslong

Synonyms of multidecade

Forms of multidecade

alternative formmulti-decade

Origin of multidecade

From multi- + decade.

Questions about multidecade

What does multidecade mean?
Multidecade means extending over multiple decades.
What part of speech is multidecade?
Multidecade is an adjective.

Words near multidecade in the dictionary

  1. multidate
  2. multiday
  3. multidaylight
  4. multideath
  5. multidecadal
  6. multidecade
  7. multideck
  8. multidecked
  9. multidefendant
  10. multideficiency
  11. multideficient

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