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annual (iou)



annual adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French annuel from late Latin annualis for Latin annuus and annalis, from annus year: see -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Reckoned, payable, or engaged by the year. LME.
Shakespeare Hamlet Gives him threescore thousand crowns in annual fee. Joyce The balance..repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments.
Lasting for one year. LME.
annual general meeting: of members or shareholders to elect officers, report on the past year, etc.
Bacon The dying in winter of the roots of plants that are annual. Milton Whether the Civil Government be an annual Democracy or a perpetual Aristocracy. J. A. Froude The annual course of the sun was completed in 365 days and six hours. W. Faulkner As the holder of the annual commuters' ticket sits on his accustomed bench.
Pertaining to a year's events. (Now chiefly of publications and freq. interpreted as sense 4.) E16.
Recurring once every year. M16.
P. Gallico She established the birthday interview as an annual custom.
b. noun.
Roman Catholic Church. A commemorative mass said for a year after, or on the anniversary of, a person's death; a payment for this. LME-M18.
A yearly payment. Latterly Scot. LME-M19.
A plant that lives for one year only, perpetuating itself by seed. M17.
hardy annual: see HARDY adjective. tender annual: see TENDER adjective.
A book etc. forming part of a series published successively at the same time each year; a book etc. reviewing the events of the past year. L17.
annualize verb trans. convert (a quantity) to its value for one year from that for a shorter period M20.
annually adverb L16.