Meanings
alternative multi-year
- not comparableHaving a duration of multiple years.
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.
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, archived from the original on 19 Feb 20252 more examples
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).
2000, Laurence D. Mueller, Amitabh Joshi, Stability in Model Populations, page 250Her 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.
2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*mel-
- Proto-Indo-European*ml̥tós?
- Proto-Italic*moltos
- Latinmultus
- Latinmultī
- Middle Englishmulti-
- Englishmulti-
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)yeh₁-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*yóh₁r̥
- Proto-Germanic*jērą
- Proto-West Germanic*jār
- Old Englishġēar
- Middle Englishyeer
- Englishyear
- Englishmultiyear
Cite this entry
multiyear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multiyear
“multiyear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multiyear. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “multiyear,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multiyear.
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