Meaning of Decades | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Decade.
2. A measure of time equal to 10 years.
3. a period of ten years. the first decade of this century (= 1900–09). dekade, tydperk van tien jaar عِقْد / عَشْرُ سَنَوات десетилетие década desetiletí das Jahrzehnt tiår; årti δεκαετίαdécada aastakümme دهه vuosikymmen décennieעשור दशक desetljeće évtized dasawarsa áratugur decennio 10年間 10년 dešimtmetis dekāde dekad decenniumtiårdziesięciolecie لس كاله، لسيزه década deceniu десятилетие desaťročie desetletje dekada decennium, årtionde ทศวรรษ on yıl 十年 десятиріччя دہائی thập kỷ 十年
4. A period of ten years.
5. A group or series of ten.
6. (Units) a period of ten consecutive years
7. (Units) a group or series of ten
8. a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero: the decade of the 1990s.
9. a set or series of ten.
10. n (= ten years) → Jahrzehnt nt, → Dekade f
    n

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Examples

“For decades American politicians have assumed that mass incarceration works, wooing voters with ever-tougher sentencing laws. The dramatic fall in crime since the 1990s has persuaded many that they were right. Locking up the worst criminals while they are young, fit and dangerous clearly makes America safer. But keeping sad cases[…]incarcerated past pensionable age serves little purpose. Prison has diminishing returns, and America long ago passed the point where jailing more people makes sense.”

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