fiscal year

1. 1.

   any accounting period of 12 months

   Synonymsfinancial year

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Questions about fiscal year

What does fiscal year mean?

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

What is another word for fiscal year?

Close synonyms include financial 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 fiscal year a common word?

fiscal year is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.