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year-on-year

year-on-year is the alternative form of year-over-year.

Meaning of year-over-year

Adjective

year-over-year (not comparable)

  1. Compared to the same time period in the previous year (for example, monthly inflation).
    Synonyms:
    YoY, y/y, y-o-y

Forms of year-on-year

alternative formyear on year

Questions about year-on-year

What is year-on-year the alternative form of?
Year-on-year is the alternative form of year-over-year.

Words near year-on-year in the dictionary

  1. year-group
  2. year-groups
  3. year-long
  4. year-old
  5. year-olds
  6. year-on-year
  7. year-over-year
  8. year-round
  9. year-round school
  10. year-rounder
  11. year-rounders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: year-on-year (page history and authors); year-over-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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