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UK
/ˈænjuːəl/
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[ US /ˈænjuəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈænjuəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
- a reference book that is published regularly once every year
ADJECTIVE
-
completing its life cycle within a year
a border of annual flowering plants -
occurring or payable every year
an annual trip to Paris
annual (or yearly) income
yearly medical examinations
How To Use annual In A Sentence
- A section of a branch of birch or willow from the north only a couple of inches in diameter will show one or two hundred annual rings. Factors Affecting Development of Canada's North
- Otherwise you'll just have to pump as much as you can into the scheme through voluntary contributions, although scope here is limited as you are restricted to a maximum of 15% of your annual salary.
- I use long lengths of floating row cover, anchored with bricks and stones, on annual and perennial beds.
- Christopher Rees is another self-taught value investor but runs a concentrated portfolio of only ten stocks; his average annual return for the last decade is 24%. Tap Your Inner Buffett
- The show travels to nearly 200 cities around the world annually with the beauty, elegance, glamour and energy of a Broadway show.
- Clinical assessments were estimated to take on average 9.8 minutes for a regular review and 13.4 minutes for an annual review.
- The estimated annual number of births affected with a neural tube defect is about 400,000 world wide.
- There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
- The dean promptly caved and told us that our party was now being called the ‘Annual’ party
- The restriction of annual export quota is deleted.
