biennium
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- noun
- /baɪˈɛn.i.əm/
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bienio
- In the last biennium, Kentucky experienced major budgetary shortfalls, which reduced the ability to fill key staff positions at the state level as well as in the RlACs.
- million per biennium
- next biennium
Examples
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The House has passed a biennium budget spending $77.6 billion in General Revenue.
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They can still pass a budget that balances this biennium but creates a deficit for the next biennium.
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Wildlife conservation sees a 43 percent reduction when compared to the last biennium.
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The impact in the Eastern Carver County School District alone for this biennium was a reduction in state funding of $3.6 million.
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The new contracts maintain those savings for the biennium and protect the Medicaid program against rising health care costs over the next 18 months.
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However, the Walker tax cuts will exacerbate the projected $3 billion deficit for the next biennium.
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The leaders of Omega State are excited to press forward with this initiative as we move into a revitalized 2013-2015 biennium.
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She served as president of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International for the 2006-2008 biennium.
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In the 2011-13 biennium, the Legislature appropriated $13.6 billion in funding for public schools from the near-general fund.
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The state invests $25 million every biennium to support local arts programs.
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
biennium = biennial (semi-transparent) = bi + ennium
The prefix 'bi-' clearly signals 'two', but the combining element 'ennium' is a learned scholarly/Latin element rather than a productive English root, so the formation is somewhat opaque to average learners.
Etymology
The word biennium comes from the parts bi- 'two' and annum 'year'. So a biennium is a time of two years, like thinking of bicycle for 'two' and annual for 'year'.