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year to date
noun [S] (written abbreviation YTD) ACCOUNTINGDefinition
› the period from the beginning of the year (either a calendar year or a financial year) until the present time, used especially when talking about a company's sales, profits, etc.: financial/fiscal year to date In the financial year to date, receipts were up 6.3%. For the year to date, sales have fallen by 15.4%.
year-to-date adjective [before noun] › The High-Yield Bond Portfolio had a year-to-date return of 1.75%. year-to-date adverb › Nationally, car sales are down about 3% year-to-date.(Definition of year to date noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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