multiyear

English

Alternative forms

• multi-year

Etymology

From multi- +‎ year.

Adjective

multiyear (not comparable)

1. Having a duration of multiple years.
   • 2000, Laurence D. Mueller, Amitabh Joshi, Stability in Model Populations, page 250:

     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).

   • 2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497:

     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.

Synonyms

• perennial, yearslong

Coordinate terms

• See yearslong § Coordinate terms