Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Happening once in four years.
- adjective Lasting for four years.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Comprising four years: as, a quadrennial period.
- Occurring once in four years: as, quadrennial elections.
- noun A fourth anniversary, or its celebration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Comprising four years.
- adjective Occurring once in four years, or at the end of every four years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Happening everyfour years . - adjective
Lasting for four years.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The administration hasn't finished a mandatory comprehensive study of U.S. nuclear-arms policy or a broader study of defense, known as the quadrennial review.
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After all, they don't call our quadrennial presidential election cycles "the silly season" for nothing.
Prominent Obama Supporter Calls Black Skepticism "Slave Mentality" 2009
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"Given that it is a so-called quadrennial year with all these events, the advertising sector should be having a really big year," he said.
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In this context it is hardly surprising that the CIA is establishing a new Center for the Study of Climate Change, or that the Pentagon now includes climate change among the security threats it assesses in its quadrennial defense reviews.
Cary Fowler: Avoiding a Global Food Fight Cary Fowler 2011
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In this context it is hardly surprising that the CIA is establishing a new Center for the Study of Climate Change, or that the Pentagon now includes climate change among the security threats it assesses in its quadrennial defense reviews.
Cary Fowler: Avoiding a Global Food Fight Cary Fowler 2011
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It is not learned with once in a while act like a quadrennial Inauguration.
D.C. Rental Boom a Bust? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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In 2004, shortly after Bush's re-election as president, the quadrennial review of US intelligence agencies foresaw continued American dominance for many years to come.
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The real reason that we put up with the idea of the Iowa Caucus, despite the quadrennial concerns that it allows a few people from a small state to ha...
The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For January 6, 2012 The Huffington Post News Team 2012
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Sunday's quadrennial municipal contests could be the last major voting in Japan for a while.
Ruling Party Hurt in Japan Election Toko Sekiguchi 2011
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Flag-waving is but a quadrennial affair, when the German soccer team marches off to the World Cup.
Those Reassuringly Dull Germans Josef Joffe 2010
john commented on the word quadrennial
"The positioning was in keeping with what is now a quadrennial rite in which the campaigns go full bore to convince the news media, and ultimately the public, that their candidate won — or more than that, to argue that the debate spotlighted some sort of character or issue defect in their opponent."
The New York Times, The Next Day, a New Debate on Who Won, by Jim Rutenberg, September 27, 2008
September 28, 2008
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