单词 | year-end |
释义 | year-endn.adj. A. n. The end of the year. Now often with reference to the end of the financial year.rare before mid 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > end of year after-season1602 year-end1605 1605 R. Polter Pathway to Perfect Sayling sig. E3 Making these beginning of the yeares to be in one point of the 10. & 9. spheares & the 9. spheare..being remooued easterly from the 10. spheare, the yeare ende comming to that point of the 12. spheare againe, is to proceede from it to that point of the 9. spheare. 1872 J. Hartley Yorks. Ditties 2nd Ser. 106 A nice little bit to fall back on i' th' Savings bank at th' year end. 1878 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 476/2 The provisional marriage could be confirmed or broken at the year end, but the man was to take charge of the offspring, if any. 1922 Facts about Sugar 29 July 86/1 (heading) Exhaustion of supplies by year-end predicted. 1948 Camden (Arkansas) News 12 June 5/4 By the year end the mill's daily capacity for kraft paper specialties will approximate 250 tons daily. 1981 Econ. Recovery Tax Act 1981 (U.S. Senate Rep. No. 144) 157 All futures contracts must be mark-to-market at year end. 2000 Wired Apr. 92/2 Add to that a total of nearly 200 million cell phones in the US by year-end. B. adj. Of or relating to the end of the year (often the financial year); calculated or recorded at the end of the year. ΚΠ 1899 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 6/3 The year-end stocktaking results. 1949 Surv. Current Business May 17 (caption) The seasonally adjusted 1948 year-end annual rate of power production..was about 350 billion kilowatt-hours. 1963 N.Y. Herald Tribune 24 Dec. 19/7 Year-end rally spirit was definitely lacking. 1976 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 19 I think the year-end Santa Claus rally commenced on Tuesday. 2000 Times 30 Aug. (Crème section) 3/2 Clients are increasingly having to make their remuneration and benefits packages more attractive. For instance, we have seen an increase in year-end discretionary bonuses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1605 |
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