yearer

English

Etymology

year +‎ -er

Noun

yearer (plural yearers)

1. (in combinations) A period of a certain number of years.
   • 1983, Mordecai Richler, The Best of modern humor:

     "Five yearers" were said to be allowed to grow moustaches or even marry a wife if such a thing were available. If "four yearers" mixed with "one yearers" the worst was suspected and very often turned out to be true.

   • 2009, Joachim Radkau, Max Weber:

     He feels the resentment of lower-class recruits and NCOs against the 'one-yearer' with higher education, who does not even have to sleep in the murk of the barracks.