Two-year

Definition: Two-year

Two-year

Adjective

1. (botany) having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "two-year" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Synonym: Two-year

Crosswords: Two-year

Books

• Advancing Opportunity in Advanced Manufacturing: The Potential of Predominantly Minority Two-Year Colleges (reference)

• Slouching Toward Fargo: A Two-Year Saga of Sinners and St. Paul Saints at the Bottom of the Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota (reference)

• Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War (reference)

• Some aspects of self-insight as found in students of a two-year normal school (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

The Growing Challenge of Alzheimer's Disease in residential settings is the culmination of a two-year project by the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, Illinois, funded by a grant from the Retirement Research Foundation. (references)

Business

PIA has recently acquired 5 Boeing 747-300 from Cathay Pacific on a two-year dry lease. (references)

This figure was expected to rise slightly to $255 in 1999 and up to 20 percent for the next two-year period. (references)

Nevertheless, their returns on equity and assets in Argentina were significantly below the average for the U.S. during the two-year period. (references)

Economic History

Eritrea

However, the two-year war with Ethiopia choked off investment. (references)

Georgia

In 1999, the U.S. Government completed a large-scale two-year program to create a stock market in Georgia. (references)

Uzbekistan

JVs with foreign ownership of 50% or more then pay only a 20% tax on profits for a subsequent two-year period. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

Subsequently, Malaysia requested an additional two-year extension. (references)

PAKISTAN

Pakistan accepted the WTO decision and has conveyed its two-year phase-out plan to the WTO. (references)

Haiti

Terms are staggered on a two-year basis, one third of senators being elected every two years. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

Azeri banks offer difficult lending terms, usually 15-25% interest in dollar-denominated loans with a maximum two-year term. (references)

Japan

Japanese machine tool manufacturers set the minimum warranty period at one year, but some manufacturers offer a two-year warranty for their own machines. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Most business visas are valid for only one entry for a period of up to three months, even though the Saudi authorities agreed in October 1999 to issue two-year, multiple-entry visas to U.S. citizens on a reciprocal basis. (references)

Travel

Pakistan

It is common practice for a one or two-year lease to require a security deposit of one year's rent. (references)

Oman

Oman grants U.S. citizens two-year, multiple entry visas, $64 for business visitors, $32 for tourists. (references)

Tunisia

IN PRACTICE, EXPATRIATE RESIDENTS ROUTINELY STAY IN TUNISIA BEYOND THE TWO-YEAR MAXIMUM, RENEWING THEIR PERMITS ANNUALLY. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "two-year": two-year-long, two-year-old, two-year-old-daughter, two-year-olds, two-year-separation, two-year-trial.

Ending with "two-year": seventy-two-year, twenty-two-year.

Containing "two-year": seventy-two-year-old, thirty-two-year-old, twenty-two-year-old.

Chinese 

2 年. (various references)

Danish

tovangsbrug (two-course system, two-year system). (various references)

Dutch

tweejarig (biennial, two-year-old). (various references)

Esperanto

dujara (biennial, two-year-old). (various references)

Finnish

kaksivuotinen (biennial). (various references)

French

obligation � deux ans placée au pair (two-year bond placed at par), assolement biennal (two-course system, two-year system). (various references)

German

zweijährig (biennial, two years old, two-year-old). (various references)

Greek 

διετής αμειψισπορά (two-course system, two-year system). (various references)

Italian

biennale (biennial, biyearly). (various references)

Korean 

2 년. (various references)

Pig Latin

o-yeartway

Spanish

rotación bienal (two-course system, two-year system). (various references)

Swedish

tvåskiftesbruk (two-course system, two-year system), tvåårig (biennial, two-year-old). (various references)

Turkmen 

ikiяyllyk (for a two year period). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: towery, watery.

-2 letters: oater, orate, tawer, teary, tower, toyer, twyer, warty, water, weary, wrote.

-3 letters: aero, aery, arty, awry, eyra, oyer, rate, rato, rota, rote, ryot, tare, taro, tear, toea, tora, tore, tory, towy, tray, trey, trow, troy, twae, tyer, tyre, tyro, ware, wart, wary, wear, wert, wore, wort, wyte, yare, year, yore.

+1 letter: outweary, routeway.

+2 letters: polywater, routeways, seaworthy.

+3 letters: polywaters.

+4 letters: blameworthy, outwearying, unseaworthy.

+5 letters: praiseworthy, yellowthroat.