year-around

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Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Operating, functioning, or occurring throughout the entire year; not seasonal: Describes something that is active, available, or relevant during all seasons, without interruption.

Usage

• The adjective "year-around" is used to modify nouns, indicating that the noun's characteristic of being continuous or available is not limited to a specific season. It is synonymous with "year-round."
• It is typically hyphenated when used as a compound adjective before a noun (e.g., a year-around program). It may sometimes be written as two separate words ("year around"), especially in less formal contexts, but the hyphenated form is standard for the adjective.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The community offers year-around recreational activities for all ages.
  • She was happy to find a year-around position at the research station.
  • This climate supports year-around gardening.

Advanced Usage

• "to operate year-around": To function continuously throughout all seasons.
  • The ferry service now operates year-around, thanks to ice-breaking ships.
• The term is often used in contexts like tourism, employment, agriculture, and education to denote non-seasonal continuity.

Variants and Related Words

• Year-round (adj): The more common and preferred variant, identical in meaning to "year-around."
  • He works at a year-round ski resort.
• Perennial (adj): Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring. (While similar, "perennial" is broader and can refer to plants or long-lasting concepts, not exclusively annual continuity.)
• Continuous (adj): Uninterrupted in time; without cessation. (A more general synonym.)

Synonyms

• Year-round
• Perennial (in some contexts)
• Continuous
• Non-seasonal
• All-year

Antonyms

• Seasonal
• Intermittent
• Periodic
• Part-year

Related Phrases

• Year-around operation: An activity or business that functions continuously.
  • The factory's shift to year-around operation increased production.
• Year-around resident: A person who lives in a location permanently, not just during a specific season.
  • The island has a small community of year-around residents.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. operating or continuing throughout the year
   • a year-round resort
   • a year-round job

Từ đồng nghĩa

• year-round