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semiyear

semiyear noun: half of a year; a period of six months.

Noun

semiyear (plural semiyears)

  1. (rare) Half of a year; a period of six months.
    • The 1934 act, as amended in 1964, requires most corporations with 500 or more stockholders and $1 million in assets to file these reports with the SEC: 10K (the annual report) to be filed within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year, 9K (the semiannual report) to be filed within 45 days of the...1984, Damodar N. Gujarati, “[The Effects of Regulation on Disclosure of Information] The Benston Study”, in Government and Business, New York, N.Y. […]: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, part 3...
    • First step: Find the interest (I₁) earned at the end of the first semiyear, 6 months.2000, Fabián Lacret-Subirat, “Interest Problems”, in Lacret HS-Math Self-Tutoring (Solving Word-Problems), [Lacret Publishing Company], →ISBN, page 47, column 2

Forms of semiyear

pluralsemiyears

Origin of semiyear

From semi- + year.

Questions about semiyear

What does semiyear mean?
Semiyear means half of a year; a period of six months.
What part of speech is semiyear?
Semiyear is a noun.
What is the plural of semiyear?
The plural of semiyear is semiyears.

Words near semiyear in the dictionary

  1. semiwildcat
  2. semiwoody
  3. semiword
  4. semiwords
  5. semiworks
  6. semiyear
  7. semiyearly
  8. semiyears
  9. semizygous
  10. Semjong
  11. semla

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