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Generation Y

  1. the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in the U.S.
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Origin of Generation Y

1990–95; patterned on Generation X
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Generation Y

noun
  1. members of the generation of people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s who are seen as being discerning consumers with a high disposable income
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