year-round

[ yeer-round ]

/ ˈyɪərˈraʊnd /

adjective

continuing, active, operating, etc., throughout the year: a year-round vacation spot.

Words nearby year-round

year of grace, year zero, year's mind, year-around, year-end, year-round, year-rounder, yearbook, yeardley, yearling, yearlong

Also year-around.

Origin of year-round

First recorded in 1920–25

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Examples from the Web for year-round

Crime in Chicago is a year-round business, and Spot News is one of its oldest customers.
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Combined, those give the planet a year-round surface temperature hot enough to melt lead.
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In 2001, Krasnodar formed a partnership with Sochi to build a year-round ski resort in the latter.
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At the high-end food retailer, gift cards are a year-round business—kind of like a pre-paid debit card for expensive groceries.
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For example, retail giant Target says it retained about 30 percent of its seasonal team for year-round positions.
Temporary Holiday Retail Jobs Are Important Economic Force|Miranda Green|November 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Indoor pools, which made swimming a year-round activity, were becoming even more numerous than beaches.
Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States|Claudia B. Kidwell
This involved raising several crops and a year-round effort of cultivation.
Frying Pan Farm|Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Radio communication, vehicle driving, marksmanship, and many other subjects are sponsored at year-round classes in local areas.
Area Handbook for Bulgaria|Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
In lowlands, it is occasionally found in year-round swamps with cypress, and in the hills on dry slopes with oaks and hickories.
Forest Trees of Illinois|Fuller George D.
Of the five bats, three are year-round residents, but Lasiurus cinereus and evidently Lasionycteris noctivagans are migrants.
Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota|Kenneth W. Andersen

British Dictionary definitions for year-round

year-round

adjective

open, in use, operating, etc, throughout the year

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