"multiyear" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "multi- + year",
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  "etymology_text": "From multi- + year.",
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      "form": "multi-year",
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      "expansion": "multiyear (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "yearslong § Coordinate terms"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Laurence D. Mueller, Amitabh Joshi, Stability in Model Populations, page 250:",
          "text": "We first discuss a multiyear study on Soay sheep (Ovis aries) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) that has successfully yielded a sophisticated understanding of population regulation (Clutton-Brock et al., 1997).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497:",
          "text": "Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2025 February 15, Todd Spangler, “Paramount and YouTube TV Reach Multiyear Distribution Deal for CBS and Other Networks, Agreement Includes Option to Bundle Paramount+”, in Variety:",
          "text": "The companies announced the multiyear pact Saturday evening, after Paramount began warning YouTube TV customers of the standoff and a potential blackout of its channels earlier this week.",
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        "Having a duration of multiple years."
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          "year",
          "year"
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        {
          "word": "perennial"
        },
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          "word": "yearslong"
        }
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        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "multiyear"
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  "etymology_text": "From multi- + year.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Laurence D. Mueller, Amitabh Joshi, Stability in Model Populations, page 250:",
          "text": "We first discuss a multiyear study on Soay sheep (Ovis aries) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) that has successfully yielded a sophisticated understanding of population regulation (Clutton-Brock et al., 1997).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497:",
          "text": "Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.",
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          "ref": "2025 February 15, Todd Spangler, “Paramount and YouTube TV Reach Multiyear Distribution Deal for CBS and Other Networks, Agreement Includes Option to Bundle Paramount+”, in Variety:",
          "text": "The companies announced the multiyear pact Saturday evening, after Paramount began warning YouTube TV customers of the standoff and a potential blackout of its channels earlier this week.",
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          "year"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "perennial"
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      "word": "yearslong"
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  "word": "multiyear"
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