TenYear

Tenyear is a term formed from the words ten and year. It is not a standard dictionary entry as a single word; in most contexts the related forms ten-year, ten year, or a hyphenated string are preferred. The concatenated form tenyear is sometimes found in branding, domain names, or product identifiers where a compact label is desired.

In finance, ten-year refers to instruments or maturities with a duration of approximately ten years, such as ten-year bonds or ten-year notes. In public policy and corporate planning, a ten-year plan or ten-year strategy sets goals and budgets across a decade and is used to coordinate multi-year initiatives and reforms.

Because the concept is simply a duration, many disciplines discuss ten-year periods as natural planning horizons, often broken into shorter terms for accountability. The phrase ten years is used when speaking of an elapsed period rather than a duration to be completed.

Orthography varies: the hyphenated ten-year is standard before a noun (ten-year forecast), while the unhyphenated ten years designates the plural time span. The single-word form tenyear is more common in branding, URLs, or identifiers than in formal prose.

Related terms include decade, ten-year plan, and ten-year bond.