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
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 Kabra is among a slate of Wall Street strategists who have boosted their year-end forecasts for the S&P 500 in recent weeks. Sagarika Jaisinghani, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024 Trending on Billboard In the 2023 year-end charts, Fuerza Regida made Billboard history by becoming the first Latin band to be No. 1 on the Top Artists – Duo/Group list, followed by Grupo Frontera and Fleetwood Mac. Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2024 But craft beer production likely declined in 2023, the association's chief economist Bart Watson said in a year-end presentation. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024 The company’s direct-to-consumer streaming unit posted an operating loss of $138 million in the year-end 2023 quarter, compared with an operating loss of nearly $1 billion in the year-earlier quarter and a sequential improvement of $300 million. Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024 Fed policymakers’ median year-end forecast for core PCE inflation rose slightly last week to 2.6%, according to its latest quarterly projections. Derek Saul, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 Following the release last week of its Global Music Report 2023, the IFPI published three year-end albums charts, breaking down the biggest titles by sales and formats (vinyl and streaming). Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Mar. 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 18 Apr. 2024.

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