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  • adverb Alternative form of toyear.

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Examples

  • Having said that, the purchasing index, which is up over 8 percent -- over year - to-year, is certainly impacting us.

    CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008 2008

  • Having said that, the purchasing index, which is up over 8 percent -- over year - to-year, is certainly impacting us.

    CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2008 2008

  • Having said that, the purchasing index, which is up over 8 percent -- over year - to-year, is certainly impacting us.

    CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2008 2008

  • Not but what he's been shaken a little to-year about this bad corn he has supplied in his contracts.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

  • Not but what he's been shaken a little to-year about this bad corn he has supplied in his contracts.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

  • "I ha'n't been there to-year; and now the winter is a-coming on I won't say I shall."

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • Well, I reckons they'll hev 'a fine cider-crop to-year if the blossom

    Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

  • Betty hath brought more goods into our Lock7 to-year than any five of the Gang; and in truth, 'tis a pity to lose so good a Customer.

    The Beggar's Opera 1728

  • _ _Betty_ hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any five of the Gang; and in truth, 'tis a pity to lose so good a Customer.

    The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song John Gay 1708

  • "It means that our ability to use water in our homes is much less dependent on the year - to-year weather."

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

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  • (noun/adverb) - This year, after the fashion of to-day, to-night, and to-morrow. "It's very serious for farmers to-year." Also to-month.

    --R.E.G. Cole's Words Used in South-West Lincolnshire, 1886

    January 14, 2018