“five-year”

The following 2 entries include the term five-year.

five-year cure

noun

: survival without clinically evident recurrence for five years after treatment for certain diseases (as cancer)

five-year plan

noun, often capitalized F&Y&P

: one of a continuing series of Soviet governmental programs designed to achieve usually specified goals in the planned, coordinated, and cumulative development of the Soviet economy and other sectors of Soviet life (as education and science) over a period of five years


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