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Annual

adjective

Completing its life cycle within a year. Synonym: one-year.

Occurring or payable every year. Synonym: yearly. "Yearly medical examinations" , "Annual (or yearly) income"

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. Synonyms: yearbook, yearly.

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"Annual" Quotes from Famous Books

... one day yet before the round-up of the Cherokee Strip. This strip of leased Indian lands was to be worked in three divisions. We were on our way to represent the Coldwater Pool in the western division, on the annual round-up. Our outfit was four men and thirty horses. We were to represent a range that had twelve thousand cattle on it, a total of forty-seven brands. We had been in the saddle since early morning, and as we came ...

— Cattle Brands - A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories • Andy Adams

... before he himself obtained the same mark of distinction. Johnson prevailed on Garrick to get her a benefit at the playhouse, and assisted her in preparing some poems she had written for the press, by both which means she obtained the sum of about L300. The interest of this, added to some small annual benefactions, probably hindered her from being any pecuniary burden to Johnson; and though she was apt to be peevish and impatient, her curiosity, the retentiveness of her memory, and the strength of her intellect, made her, on the whole, an agreeable companion to him. The other inmate, ...

— Lives of the English Poets - From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of - Johnson's Lives • Henry Francis Cary

... shares are distributed in early 1995, 75%-80% of the economy will be in private hands or partially privatized, according to the Czech government. Privatized companies still face major problems in restructuring; the number of annual bankruptcies quadrupled in 1994. In September 1994, Prague repaid $471 million in IMF loans five years ahead of schedule, making the Czech Republic the first East European country to pay off all IMF debts. Despite these outlays, hard-currency reserves in the banking system ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... liking. He knew that the majority of clergymen considered it to be their duty to preach funeral service over the drowned Chinamen, and to impress upon their hearers that David was a man after God's own heart. He also knew that the majority of clergymen preached annual sermons in aid of the missionaries who did some yachting in the South Seas, and had brought into existence the sin of nakedness among the natives, in order that they might be the more easily swindled by those Christians who sold them shoddy for calico, to purge them of their sin. ...

— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore

... Annual visits are paid to persons with whom you have a cool acquaintance, They visit you in the autumn, you return a card in ...

— The Laws of Etiquette • A Gentleman

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