year-end

1 of 2

noun

: the end of usually the fiscal year

year-end

2 of 2

adjective

: made, occurring, or existing at the year-end
a year-end report

Examples of year-end in a Sentence

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Noun
Under which scenario does Latisha have the largest amount in retirement savings at year-end? 1. The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2024 The adjustments had no impact on year-end paid streaming subscriber performance. Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024 Her administration canceled the development agreement and then took Miami Wilds to court to formalize the termination after the project missed year-end construction deadlines mandated in the original 2022 agreement. Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024 Its press release that day announced that David Calhoun will step down as CEO at year-end, and that chairman Larry Kellner, former head of Continental Airlines, will depart following the annual meeting on May 16, to be replaced by director Steve Mollenkopf, retired chief of Qualcomm. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024 At a packed year-end board meeting last May, a few dozen students and parents, including a current and former mayor of Maplewood, argued for retaining Mr. Sanchez. John Leland John Leland, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024 The album finished the year as both the No. 1 year-end Billboard 200 album and Luminate's year-end top album, per the outlet. Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024 Pretty sure credit card companies no longer send paper year-end summaries to our physical mailboxes. Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024 Red One, from Dwayne Johnson and his Seven Bucks Productions, is set to hit theaters worldwide Nov. 15, 2024, in order to take full advantage of the long year-end holiday corridor (several cinema operators told The Hollywood Reporter the footage looks promising). Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
Adjective
Birmingham police only have to report criminal homicides to the FBI for year-end statistical review. Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 22 Mar. 2023 Global recorded-music revenue growth slowed down dramatically in 2022 but still was up 9% according to the year-end report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s released Tuesday. Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023 Martin Gruenberg, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., recently estimated that banks faced $620 billion in paper losses at year-end 2022. Mickey D. Levy, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023 On a year-end earnings call in 2022, Novo Nordisk cited worldwide market growth of fifty per cent, with almost forty thousand new Wegovy prescriptions being written every week. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023 His year-end bonus from the PAC, an additional payment, rose from $2,000 in 2021 to $3,000. Rosalind S. Helderman, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Josh Dawsey, Shane Harris, Ashley Parker, Devlin Barrett, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2023 At year-end, Citibank held almost 19% of its assets in cash. Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023 The company’s inventory increased 9.5% and at the year-end was $1.26 billion. Walter Loeb, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023 The single spent three weeks atop the list in 1995 and finished as the year-end No. 1 song on the Hot 100. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1872, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

1899, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of year-end was in 1872

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“Year-end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/year-end. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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