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off year
noun
- a year without a major, especially presidential, election.
- a year marked by reduced or inferior production or activity in a particular field, as farming, business, or sports:
With its wet, cold summer, this was an off year for grapes.
Other Words From
- off-year adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of off year1
Example Sentences
The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
So far, Ready for Hillary's foray into off-year elections is mixed.
But, in an off-year special election those patterns might not hold.
Canter acknowledges that the Democrats talk about “field” in every off-year election.
Instead, the off-year had elections of less political significance but scandals that were a lot more fun.
At the present time the Red Astrachans are ripe and the two off-year branches are fairly well loaded with magnificent apples.
Every President in the off-year election urges the election of a Congress of his own party.
By the latter system the ploughing is done in the off-year, and the land left a naked fallow.
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