year-round

[ yeer-round ]

adjective

1. continuing, active, operating, etc., throughout the year:

   a year-round vacation spot.

year-round

adjective

1. open, in use, operating, etc, throughout the year

Word History and Origins

Origin of year-round¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Crime in Chicago is a year-round business, and Spot News is one of its oldest customers.

From The Daily Beast

Combined, those give the planet a year-round surface temperature hot enough to melt lead.

From The Daily Beast

Bettles also attracts year-round climate-change tourists like me.

From The Daily Beast

In 2001, Krasnodar formed a partnership with Sochi to build a year-round ski resort in the latter.

From The Daily Beast

In line with its all-encompassing mission statement, the chapel is free and open to the public year-round.

From The Daily Beast

Not from this class, however, do your all-the-year-round bathers come.

From Project Gutenberg

And then Santa Barbara, peerless among all-the-year-round resorts.

From Project Gutenberg

Solar Cookers will then serve year-round, as long as the sun is shining, for these fortunate people.

From Project Gutenberg

Several recreation centers, all-the-year-round playgrounds, have been added since then.

From Project Gutenberg

Practice alone can make perfect, and experience is the more necessary because the cinematograph is an all-the-year-round machine.

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