Annual or yearly is a word often used to describe something that happens once a calendar year.
"Annual" may be an abbreviation for:
- Yearbook
- Annual plant
- Annual publication
- Annual report
- Annual giving
Annual may also refer to:
- Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco
- Annuals, a musical group
Famous quotes containing the word annual:
“In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that’s none of the law’s business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he’d better have the rooms available.”
—Unknown. Charlotte Observer (October 6, 1989)
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Time that scatters hair upon a head
Spreads the ice sheet on the shaven lawn;
Signing an annual permit for the frost....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)