YEAR-ROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does year-round mean? 

• YEAR-ROUND (adjective)
  The adjective YEAR-ROUND has 1 sense:

1. operating or continuing throughout the year

  Familiarity information: YEAR-ROUND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEAR-ROUND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Operating or continuing throughout the year

Synonyms:

year-around; year-round

Context example:

a year-round job

Antonym:

seasonal (occurring at or dependent on a particular season)

 Context examples 

Everyone is at risk for eye damage from the sun year-round.

(Eye Wear, NIH)

When the scientists measured urea in the ocean, they found it to be consistently present year-round, and concentrations tended to be higher than those of ammonium and nitrate in the summer.

(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)

So scientists were surprised to learn that giant kelp maintains its impressive growth rates year-round, even in summer and early fall when ocean currents along the California coast stop delivering nutrients.

(In search of an undersea kelp forest's missing nitrogen, National Science Foundation)

One of the main forms of nitrogen is nitrate, and although nitrate is scarce in the summer and fall, giant kelp continues to grow year-round.

(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)