financial year

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noun British

any annual period at the end of which a firm's accounts are made up

the annual period ending April 5, over which Budget estimates are made by the British Government and which functions as the income-tax year

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US and Canadian equivalent: fiscal year

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How to use financial year in a sentence

As the financial year had closed in May, it would be more than two years since the previous report had been made to the public.
George Muller of Bristol|Arthur T. Pierson
By the advent of the financial year 1888-9, most intelligent public men felt gravely disturbed.
Our First Half-Century|Government of Queensland
A sharp increase is bound to come, however, in the course of the financial year.
The World in Chains|John Mavrogordato
The Budget for the next financial year was introduced in due course.
The Annual Register 1914|Anonymous

It was a night which marked the close of the financial year of the firm.
Carnac's Folly, Complete|Gilbert Parker

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