Definition of "noughties" []

• The first decade of a century: from 1900 to 1909, 2000 to 2009, etc. (noun)

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• "The Met Office figures indicate that the years since 2000 - the "noughties" - were on average about 0. 18C (0.32F) warmer than years in the 1990s; and that since the 1970s, each decade has seen an increase of about the same scale."
• "A collaboration between the resurgent Queen of R&B and the most innovative urban producers of the noughties should be a musical event."
• "Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the ­decade, leading to a colossal misallocation of resources away from exports towards construction, whose share of the economy more than doubled from 6% to 14%"