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civil year

noun as in calendar year

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South Sudan is slowly emerging from a five year civil year that killed almost 400,000 people.

Next month, it expects to start work with a squad of 15 trained rats in Angola, where as many as six million land mines remain from a civil year.

Tisri, tiz′ri, n. the first month of the Jewish civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, corresponding to part of September and October.

Ab, ab, n. the eleventh month of the Jewish civil year, and the fifth of the ecclesiastical year, answering to parts of July and August.

At the Roman. beginning of each civil year it was the duty of the consuls to vow to the gods games for the safety of the commonwealth, and the expenses were defrayed by the treasury.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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