annual
Speech parts
1. annual - Noun
2. annual - Adjective
3. annual - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
When annual elections end, there slavery begins.
The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.