What is "second-year"

Usage examples of "second-year".

There was fractiousness among the younger birds, but the elders did not protest, for mating time was approaching and there were many second-year geese who had not yet selected their partners, so that confusion was inescapable.

Claire had earned thirty-one thousand dollars as a second-year surgical resident, so our gross income looked quite handsome.

Claire had earned thirty-one thousand dollarsas a second-year surgical resident, so our gross income looked quitehandsome.

He had been hired because as a second-year graduate student in film studies at the University of Denver he was presumed to share similar enthusiasms with the boss, a presumption the whole family had cause to regret, his arguments with Emory over the aesthetic merits of a particular film or even, on occasion, a particular forty-five seconds, having often escalated into legendary shouting matches capable of clearing out not only the office but a few paying rooms as well.