FISCAL YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fiscal year mean? 

• FISCAL YEAR (noun)
  The noun FISCAL YEAR has 1 sense:

1. any accounting period of 12 months

  Familiarity information: FISCAL YEAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FISCAL YEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any accounting period of 12 months

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

financial year; fiscal year

Hypernyms ("fiscal year" is a kind of...):

twelvemonth; year; yr (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)

 Context examples 

The NCI-Funded Research Portfolio Database is a searchable database that contains information about research grant and contract awards made by the NCI for the current and past five fiscal years.

(NCI-Funded Research Portfolio Database, NCI Thesaurus)