fiscal year

noun

: an accounting period of 12 months

Examples of fiscal year in a Sentence

Sales were up in the last fiscal year.

Our fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30.

Recent Examples on the Web

The company saw $250 million in retail sales in fiscal year 2022, Wired reported. — Keren Novack, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

The agency spent $19 billion from last October to July, the most recent month for which data is available, up from $11 billion the previous full fiscal year, a CBS News analysis of federal data found. — Julia Ingram, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

With the end of the fiscal year less than a week away, the announcement means the funds will go unspent and Congress can't respond. — Eric McDaniel, NPR, 28 Sep. 2026

Nvidia has the power to do so after the frenzy around its chips used for artificial-intelligence technology helped it more than double the amount of cash on its books in the first half of its fiscal year. — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fiscal year

• charioteer
• ritonavir
• adhere
• ameer
• amir
• appear
• arrear
• astir
• austere
• career
• cashier
• cohere

Legal Definition

fiscal year

noun

: an accounting period of 12 months