off year

1. 1.

   a year in which productivity is low or inferior

   Broaderyear
2. 2.

   a year in which no major political elections are held

   Broaderyear

Questions about off year

What does off year mean?

off year means "a year in which productivity is low or inferior". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is off year a common word?

off year is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.