What is "off-year"

Usage examples of "off-year".

The hard-money boom of a year earlier had swept in a Conservative majority in the off-year elections, but they had no real policy to offer, and the proposals of the minority group of Laborites and Leftists were voted down without substitutes being suggested.

It was in that eventful summer of 1950, during the off-year in his Mexican migrations, and before he plunged into his childhood memoir, that he published his first book written for a nonscientific audience.

Bolder engineering schemes must be developed, such as storing off-year water in the great lakes of East Africa and building a canal through the Sudd swamp in southern Sudan, where considerable Nile water is lost through evaporation.