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
Barboza, who opened his first bin store in 2020, said he's turned a profit over his four years in the business and expects to be operating five stores by year-end. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 13 May 2024 Investors are now fully factoring in two interest rate cuts by year-end, beginning in September. Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2024 These include year-end student performances, a Pride pageant, and movie nights. Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024 Hudson Bay, which managed about $20 billion at year-end, said in a statement that Bed Bath creditors were behind the lawsuit, and that the hedge fund never owned more than 10% of the retailer’s shares. Miles Weiss, Fortune, 9 May 2024 Big Loud was named Billboard’s top country label of 2023, one of 24 year-end charts the label and its artists landed on. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 9 May 2024 Pitchfork’s editors are already thinking about what albums have left the biggest impressions and will land a coveted spot on our year-end list. Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 1 May 2024 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
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 20 May. 2024.

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