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Definition: Calendar Year |
Calendar YearNoun1. The year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | The year of the Gregorian calendar, common years having 365 days and leap years 366 days.Each year exactly divisible by 4 is a leap year, except century years (1800, 1900, etc.), which must be exactly divisible by 400 (2000, 2400, etc.) to be leap years. The calendar year is based on the tropical year. Also called civil year. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
More generally, a calendar year begins on the New Year's day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's day.
See also other calendars
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Synonym: Calendar YearSynonym: civil year (n). (additional references) |
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Instantaneity | Calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year. |
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Crosswords: Calendar Year |
| English words defined with "calendar year": calendar month ♦ Epact ♦ month ♦ New Year ♦ year, year-end. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "calendar year": accounting year, After-third-year bird, annual average weekday traffic ♦ budget year, budgetary year ♦ cash expenditure, cash expenditures, cash payment, Compliance Cycle ♦ disbursements ♦ exercise program ♦ Full-time, year-round workers ♦ national financial year, Number of workers in family in ♦ payments ♦ SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANT ♦ Third-year bird ♦ Weeks worked in, Worked in. (references) |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Allowances by the Governments of the Allied and Associated Powers to the families and dependents of mobilised persons or persons serving with the forces, the amount due to them for each calendar year in which hostilities occurred being calculated for each Government on the basis of the average scale for such payments in force in France during that year. (reference) |
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Business | In the 1999 calendar year, Australia imported 1,733,180 liters of beer from the U.S. valued at US$1,683,157 compared to 1,676,960 liters worth US$1,554,097 in 1998, an increase of 3.4 percent in volume and 8.29 percent in value. (references) | |
Taiwan budget system has followed a fiscal year, which begins on July 1 and ends June 30 of the next year. However, traditional practices and the general public always follow the calendar year. In order to confirm to routine commercial practices and simplify administrative procedures, Taiwan revised the Budget Law on October 15, 1998 to change the fiscal year system to a calendar year system. (references) | ||
Economic History | Algeria | Fiscal year: Calendar year. (references) |
Honduras | The following data are on a calendar year basis. (references) | |
Cape Verde | Major trading partners--Portugal, Netherlands, U.S. other EC. Fiscal year: Calendar year. (references) | |
Political Economy | RUSSIA | The Russian economy grew 8.3 percent in 2000. In the first six months of 2001, GDP increased 5 percent (year-on-year) and forecasts for calendar year 2001 are for 5.5 percent GDP growth. (references) |
Trade | Bulgaria | The sizes of the quotas are determined by calendar year. (references) |
South Africa | Furthermore, long term insurers, pension funds and unit trusts through unit trust management companies may now also apply to avail of foreign currency transfers in 2000 of up to 10% of the net inflow of funds during the 1999 calendar year and to acquire foreign portfolio investments subject to the overall respective limits referred to. (references) | |
Travel | South Africa | Duties on bona fide unsolicited gifts entering South Africa consigned by individuals in South Africa can be fully rebated as long as (1) he or she does not receive more than two parcels per calendar year; and (2) the value of each parcel does not exceed R400. This rule excludes goods that are contained in passengers' baggage, wine, spirits and manufactured tobacco (including cigarettes and cigars). (references) |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I have reviewed their estimates and believe that the safety of the Nation will require the maintenance of an armed strength of this size for the calendar year that is before us. |
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| Language | Translations for "calendar year"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kalenderår. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kalenderjaar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kalenterivuosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | exercice civil, année de calendrier, année civile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kalenderjahr (legal year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ημερολογιακό έτος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | naptári év. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | anno solare (solar year), anno di calendario, anno civile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 暦年度 , 暦年 (civil year, time, year after year), 歴年 (civil year, time, year after year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | れきね"ど, れきね" (civil year, time, year after year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alendarcay yearay ano civil. (various references) kalendarska godina. (various references) año natural, año civil, año calendario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-e-e-l-n-r-r-y" | |
-4 letters: calendar, calender, decenary, declarer, dracaena, larcener, readerly. | |
-5 letters: adrenal, alcayde, already, aneared, ardency, arrayal, arrayed, caldera, canaled, candela, candler, cleaned, cleaner, cleared, clearer, craaled, cradler, creedal, deanery, decanal, decayer, declare, delayer, enlaced, errancy, lanyard, larceny, layered, learned, learner, recaned, reclean, relaced, relayed, relearn, reynard, yearend, yearned, yearner. | |
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