financial year

1. 1.

   any accounting period of 12 months

   Synonymsfiscal year

   Broaderyear

Questions about financial year

What does financial year mean?

financial year means "any accounting period of 12 months".

What is another word for financial year?

Close synonyms include fiscal year. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is financial year a common word?

financial year is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.