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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
financial year
noun
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▪ Gone are the days of spending frantically because the end of the financial year was nigh.
▪ However, in the first five months of the current financial year to 30 September 1992, it showed considerable improvement.
▪ In its last financial year ending December 1988, Pearl reported pre-tax profits of £66.2m compared with £48.34m a year earlier.
▪ In the financial year 1982-83 the sales revenue from the sales of books, music and journals amounted to approximately £60m.
▪ Last financial year, some 740,000 people entered Government training programmes, compared with 110,000 in 1978-79 - a sevenfold increase.
▪ My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders, thereby keeping them out of custody.
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financial year

n. (context accounting English) (alternative form of fiscal year English)

WordNet
financial year

n. any accounting period of 12 months [syn: fiscal year]

Usage examples of "financial year".

Following the worst financial year of its life, in which it was forced to cut nearly a quarter of its employees, and facing an uncertain future, Cray Research called it quits.

If we keep expanding at our current rate, we'll be turning over half a million dollars in the financial year 1942!

A financial year or two from now, as soon as the hotels have notched up a healthy set of accounts, they'll be sold off to the highest bidder who by coincidence will be Rafi Domingo wearing a different company hat.

It has yielded an eighteen per cent dividend in the past financial year.

Robinson had built, yet at the end of the last financial year it had paid a dividend of 125 per cent.

But for most of the financial year 1960-1 he had been in the employ of a firm whose name Thomas recognised as belonging to one of Britain's leading manufacturers and exporters of small arms.

Mma Ramotswe wrote letters to old friends and prepared accounts for the impending end of the financial year.