year-on-year
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.64 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Within six months, the total number of passengers forecast to use the line in the entire first year (650,000) had already been passed. For the first 12 months, the figure was in excess of 1.2 million. And overall, it has grown year-on-year, reaching over two million in 2018-19."
- "Prices for new homes in 70 Chinese cities fell by a worse-than-expected 1.3% year on year in August, according to official figures, reflecting a turbulent 12 months in which China’s housing sector has gone from an unstoppable driver of growth and prosperity to being the chief threat to the world’s powerhouse economy."
Inflected Forms
year on year (alternative)
Phrases
period-on-period
quarter-on-quarter
month-on-month
Frequently Paired Words
period-on-period
quarter-on-quarter
month-on-month