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multiyear

multiyear adjective: having a duration of multiple years.

Adjective

multiyear (not comparable)

  1. Having a duration of multiple years.
    • We first discuss a multiyear study on Soay sheep (Ovis aries) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) that has successfully yielded a sophisticated understanding of population regulation (Clutton-Brock et al., 1997).2000, Laurence D. Mueller, Amitabh Joshi, Stability in Model Populations, page 250
    • Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she...2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497
    Synonyms:
    perennial, yearslong

Synonyms of multiyear

Forms of multiyear

alternative formmulti-year

Origin of multiyear

From multi- + year.

Questions about multiyear

What does multiyear mean?
Multiyear means having a duration of multiple years.
What part of speech is multiyear?
Multiyear is an adjective.

Words near multiyear in the dictionary

  1. multiwormers
  2. multiwormhole
  3. multiwrite
  4. multiwriter
  5. multixenobiotic
  6. multiyear
  7. multizeta
  8. multizillionaire
  9. multizillionaires
  10. multizipper
  11. multizonal

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