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FY

1
  1. fiscal year.


-fy

2
  1. a verbal suffix meaning “to make,” “cause to be,” “render” ( simplify; beautify ); “to become,” “be made” ( liquefy ). The suffix was introduced into English in loan words from Old French ( deify ), but is also used in the formation of new words, usually on a Latin root ( reify ).

-fy

suffix forming verbs

  1. to make or become

    liquefy

    beautify

    simplify

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of FY1

< Old French -fier Latin -ficāre to do, make
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Word History and Origins

Origin of FY1

from Old French -fier , from Latin -ficāre , verbal ending formed from -ficus -fic
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Example Sentences

These trends have continued into the first two months of the 2014 FY year.

But the data from the first two months of FY 2014 tell the same story.

For the first two months, revenues are $381.4 billion, up 10 percent from the first two months of FY 2013.

Meanwhile, spending, at $603 billion, is down nearly five percent from $633 billion in the first two months of FY 2013.

The most recent filing for FY 2009–10 puts his earnings at $490,000.

A consonant or digraph between two sounded vowels usually joins the following vowel, rea-son, no-ti-fy, mo-ther.

In pronouncing notice carefully to which syllable a consonant belongs; as in dif-fer-ent, beau-ti-fy, dai-sy.

And a shootcase, so when Dor'fy brings her chile over to stay all night with our chilluns.

Daf-fy-down-Dil-ly has come up to town, In a yel-low pet-ti-coat and a green gown.

In 1835 Fy was elected to the Hungarian diet, and was for a time the leader of the opposition party.

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