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yearer en · NOUN

Etymology

From year + -er.

Meanings

1. (in combinations) A period of a certain number of years.
   • He feels the resentment of lower-class recruits and NCOs against the 'one-yearer' with higher education, who does not even have to sleep in the murk of the barracks. 2009, Joachim Radkau, Max Weber:
   • "Five yearers" were said to be allowed to grow moustaches or even marry a wife if such a thing were available. If "four yearers" mixed with "one yearers" the worst was suspected and very often turned out to be true. 1983, Mordecai Richler, The Best of modern humor:

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