Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Quadrennial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
quadrennial .
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- adjective Alternative form of
quadrennial .
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Examples
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McDonnell complained that the Defense Department did not use its own quadriennial review or the well-established Base Realignment and Closure process in making recommendations for defense cuts.
McDonnell reports little progress overturning JFCOM closure Rosalind Helderman 2010
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(The heart of it not in the chosen – the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
walt whitman | election day, november, 1884 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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The herd have to be watched by day, and driven in at the fall of night; that is the task of the boys and the youths who have not gone through with the quadriennial circumcision ceremonies and become El-morani, or warriors.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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(The heart of it not in the chosen -- the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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Always united in the purpose of regulating the affairs of the whole Union by the standard of the slaveholding interest, the disproportionate numbers of this section in the electoral colleges have enabled them, in ten out of twelve quadriennial elections, to confer the chief magistracy on one of their own citizens.
Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Josiah Quincy 1818
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St. Louis is competing with three other cities for the quadriennial convention:
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(The heart of it not in the chosen -- the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
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