year

year
n.

1) to spend a year (somewhere)

2) a bad, lean; banner (AE), good; happy; healthy; memorable; peak, record; profitable year (our firm had a very profitable year; their team had a good year)

3) smb.'s formative; golden years

4) every; last; next; this year

5) the coming; current; past year

6) an academic, school; calendar; election; fiscal; jubilee; presidential (US); sabbatical; tax year

7) a common; leap; light; lunar; sidereal; solar year

8) by the year (to be paid by the year)

9) by ('before') a year (by the year 2000, the population in many countries will double)

10) for a year (they went abroad for a year)

11) for, in (esp. AE) years (they have not been here for/ in years)

12) in a year (they'll be back in a year)

13) in a (certain) year (he died in the year of the great flood; in future years; in years to come)

14) (misc.) once a year; year in, year out; the first time in (esp. AE), for (BE) a year; she is five years old; light years away; for years to come; up to last year; children of tender years; she had three years of college

* * *
[jɪə]
children of tender years
fiscal
for (BE) a year
for years to come
golden years
light years away
lunar
memorable
past year
she had three years of college
she is five years old
sidereal
solar year
tax year
this year
up to last year
year in
year out
banner (AE)
presidential (US)
the first time in (esp. AE)
profitable year (our firm had a very profitable year; their team had a good year)
in (esp. AE) years (they have not been here for/in years)
(misc.) once a year
a bad
a common
an academic
every
for
smb. 's formative
the coming
by ('before') a year (by the year 2000, the population in many countries will double)
in a (certain) year (he died in the year of the great flood; in future years; in years to come)
to spend a year (somewhere)
for a year (they went abroad for a year)
in a year (they'll be back in a year)
by the year (to be paid by the year)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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