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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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What does "on" mean in "year on year" ?
  

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Hard to say without the context. If it's economics, it means year-to-year comparison of statistics.

  • Hard to say without the context.
  • If it's economics, it means year-to-year comparison of statistics.
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Hard to say without the context. If it's economics, it means year-to-year comparison of statistics.
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AnonymousWhat does "on" mean in "year on year" ?
Probably "compared with the previous" (year).

Sometimes words themselves have no fixed meaning. It's the full expression in which they occur that has a meaning. Therefore, it's not that "on" actually means "compared with the previous". It's that you'd have to paraphrase it that way to make sense of t

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