year-round
[yeer-round]
- continuing, active, operating, etc., throughout the year: a year-round vacation spot.
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Also year-around.
Origin of year-round
First recorded in 1920–25
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Contemporary Examples
Crime in Chicago is a year-round business, and Spot News is one of its oldest customers.
Combined, those give the planet a year-round surface temperature hot enough to melt lead.
In 2001, Krasnodar formed a partnership with Sochi to build a year-round ski resort in the latter.
At the high-end food retailer, gift cards are a year-round business—kind of like a pre-paid debit card for expensive groceries.
For example, retail giant Target says it retained about 30 percent of its seasonal team for year-round positions.
Historical Examples
Radio communication, vehicle driving, marksmanship, and many other subjects are sponsored at year-round classes in local areas.
Area Handbook for BulgariaEugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
This involved raising several crops and a year-round effort of cultivation.
Frying Pan FarmElizabeth Brown Pryor
Never once did they think of themselves and their indiscriminate, year-round slaughter as the "plague."
Double ChallengeJames Arthur Kjelgaard
More and more people learned the delightful sport of turning an abandoned farm into a year-round country estate.
The Joyful HeartRobert Haven Schauffler
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 IllinoisFuller George D.
year-round
- open, in use, operating, etc, throughout the year
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