Annual Meaning
/ˈæn.ju.əl/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHappening once every year.
adjOf, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.
Sentence Examples
Our company has annual sales of a thousand million yen.
The representative was absent from the annual conference.
There are plans to make the race an annual fixture.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Our company holds an ____ meeting every December to review the past year's performance and plans.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city holds an ____ festival to celebrate its local history every year.
Word Origin & History
First attested around 1382, borrowed from Late Latin annuālem, annuālis, related to Latin annālis, adjective form of annus (“year”). Used to categorize plants since 1710.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles."
— 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
"Some routine annuals take a half hour and cost about $30."
— 1976, Better Homes and Gardens, volume 54, numbers 7-12, page 250:
"Excellent work has been done by the Playgoers' Club in connection with its Christmas Pantomime Fund. Thousands of children who possibly otherwise would have little chance of witnessing one of the hardy annuals have been annually taken […]"
— 1919, Lionel Carson, The Stage Year Book, page 67:
"From 1852 until 1888 he was the author of every Drury Lane pantomime, or "Annuals" as in his old fashioned way he preferred to […]"
— 1949, Albert Edward Wilson, The Story of Pantomime, page 61:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Our company holds an ____ meeting every December to review the past year's performance and plans.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city holds an ____ festival to celebrate its local history every year.