civil year

British  

noun

1. another name for calendar year See year

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Example Sentences

South Sudan is slowly emerging from a five year civil year that killed almost 400,000 people.

From Seattle Times

Next month, it expects to start work with a squad of 15 trained rats in Angola, where as many as six million land mines remain from a civil year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tisri, tiz′ri, n. the first month of the Jewish civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, corresponding to part of September and October.

From Project Gutenberg

Abib, ā′bib, n. the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical, the seventh of the civil year, later called Nisan, answering to parts of March and April.

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At the Roman. beginning of each civil year it was the duty of the consuls to vow to the gods games for the safety of the commonwealth, and the expenses were defrayed by the treasury.

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Related Words

• fiscal year