pertaining to, dependent on, or accompanying the seasons of the year or some particular season; periodical: seasonal work.
noun
a seasonal product, employee, etc.: to hire seasonals.
Origin of seasonal
First recorded in 1830–40; season + -al1
words often confused with seasonal
Seasonal and seasonable are sometimes interchanged, probably because of their obvious connection with season. In edited prose and in formal speech these two adjectives are almost always distinguished. Seasonal describes phenomena that occur with or depend upon a season or the seasons: seasonal fluctuations in rainfall; seasonal sales.Seasonable in reference to weather means “suitable to or characteristic of the season”: a seasonable December; seasonable temperatures for July.Seasonable also has the sense “timely, opportune”: a seasonable offer of financial assistance.
Hershey is scaling back its production of seasonal treats—think items like Reese’s Pumpkins—in favor of traditional products and packaging, which are easier to sell off if inventory is left over.
How scary will a COVID-19 Halloween be for candy companies?|Beth Kowitt|August 29, 2020|Fortune
A few times a year, forecasters draw up seasonal predictions, which rely on very different types of information than the current weather conditions that feed short-term forecasts.
Improved three-week weather forecasts could save lives from disaster|Alexandra Witze|August 27, 2020|Science News
Almost all of those gains were in education, and that’s where we may run into problems with the way the BLS’s seasonal adjustments — which follow the ebb and flow of employment under normal circumstances — account for monthly changes.
Yes, Unemployment Fell. But The Recovery Seems To Be Slowing Down.|Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 7, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
This is particularly useful if you sell a variety of seasonal products online.
How search data can inform larger online business decisions|Sebastian Compagnucci|August 5, 2020|Search Engine Land
The World Health Organization coordinates a Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, which gathers data from member countries to monitor seasonal and pandemic flu.
4 reasons not to worry about that ‘new’ swine flu in the news|Erin Garcia de Jesus|July 2, 2020|Science News
For additional information on seasonal depression, head to the National Institute of Mental Health.
9 Ways to Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder|DailyBurn|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After all, you prepare your home, car, garden and other things for the seasonal change, so why not your body?
9 Ways to Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder|DailyBurn|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Construction would require around 10,400 seasonal workers for stretches that would last either four or eight months.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: November 16|PunditFact.com|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Along with her husband Kevin, she owns Thirty Acres, a seasonal farm-to-table restaurant in Jersey City.
High Rents Are Killing the Restaurant Capital|Will Doig|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whether this three-day system is a harbinger of seasonal weather changes is uncertain.
A Cloud Forms Over Saturn’s Mysterious Moon|Matthew R. Francis|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The only other procyonid for which a seasonal molt has been described is Bassariscus astutus.
Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae|John N. Mugaas
Sapwood might reasonably be expected to respond to seasonal changes, and to some extent it does.
The Mechanical Properties of Wood|Samuel J. Record
Humpback whales are seasonal migrants found in all of the world's oceans.
Humpback Whales in Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska|United States Department of Commerce, Marine Mammal Commission
All animal life below man must locate where its food abounds, or follow that food in its migrations or seasonal changes.
The Things Which Remain|Daniel A. Goodsell
Seasonal use of materials has been kept in mind in outlining this course.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
British Dictionary definitions for seasonal
seasonal
/ (ˈsiːzənəl) /
adjective
of, relating to, or occurring at a certain season or certain seasons of the yearseasonal labour