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Examples of fiscal year in a Sentence
Sales were up in the last fiscal year.
Our fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30.
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The Utes booked a $3.0 million surplus in the 2023 fiscal year and a $6.9 million shortfall in 2024.
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Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
In fiscal year 2023, USAID disbursed $72 billion in assistance worldwide, Reuters reported.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
That took GoCardless’ salary expenses down 13% to £79.2 million in the company’s 2024 fiscal year.
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Ryan Browne, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
Since then, in the past two fiscal years, Otay Mesa judges denied asylum in roughly 67% of cases, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse of Syracuse University, which gathers government data through public records requests.
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Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
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Word History
First Known Use
1843, in the meaning defined above
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“Fiscal year.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiscal%20year. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
Legal Definition
fiscal year
noun
: an accounting period of 12 months
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