annual has definitions from the fields of writing,botany
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[ adjective ] occurring or payable every year

Synonyms

yearly

Examples

"an annual trip to Paris" "yearly medical examinations" "annual (or yearly) income"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

The other bill , by Sen._A._M._Aikin_Jr. of Paris , would relieve real_estate_brokers , who pay their own annual licensing_fee , from the $ 12 annual occupation_license on brokers in such_as stocks and bonds .

The other bill , by Sen._A._M._Aikin_Jr. of Paris , would relieve real_estate_brokers , who pay their own annual licensing_fee , from the $ 12 annual occupation_license on brokers in such_as stocks and bonds .

(The New York Times,...)

With the announcement of a `` special achievement award '' to William_A._Bill_Shea , the awards list was completed yesterday for Sunday night 's thirty-eighth annual dinner and show of the New_York Chapter , Baseball_Writers_Association_of_America , at the Waldorf-Astoria_Hotel .

(Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)

I cannot make sense out of the figures for post maturity growth ; at_best the annual increase appears to be a matter of inches rather_than feet .

Related terms

year year

2
[ adjective ] (botany) completing its life cycle within a year

Synonyms

one-year

Examples

"a border of annual flowering plants"

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

The crowd at the twenty-first annual K._of_C._Games , final indoor meet of the season , got a thrill a_few minutes earlier when a slender , bespectacled woman broke the one week old world_record in the half-mile run .

Related terms

perennial biennial botany

3
[ noun ] (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

Related terms

plant

4
[ noun ] (writing) a reference book that is published regularly once every year

Synonyms

yearbook

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