1980s

• 1980's

1980s pl (plural only)

1. The decade beginning in 1980 and ending in 1989.
   • 2008, Robert Jellison, William D. Williams, Brian Timms, Javier Alcocer, Nikolay V. Aladin, “Salt lakes: values, threats and future”, in Nicholas V. C. Polunin, editor, Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99, column 2:

     On the Alxa Plateau of Inner Mongolia, Gaxun Nur Lake (262 km²) dried in the 1970s and the Sogo Nur Lake in the 1980s.

   • 2016 October 25, Edward Wong, “Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 October 2016, World‎:

     Mr. Zhang said a main goal of moving people from Xihaigu was to turn the hills green, with a parallel planting program. More than two million acres have been converted to forest and pasture land, he said, citing the Guyuan area, where forest coverage was 22 percent last year, up from 4 percent in the 1980s.

• '80s, 80s, eighties

1980s

1. (snowboarding) plural of 1980

• 1890s