PER ANNUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does per annum mean? 

• PER ANNUM (adverb)
  The adverb PER ANNUM has 1 sense:

1. by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)

  Familiarity information: PER ANNUM used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PER ANNUM (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)

Synonyms:

annually; each year; p.a.; per annum; per year

Context example:

we issue six volumes per annum

 Context examples 

This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar—he seems to forget that he pays me 30 pounds per annum for receiving his orders.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A clear ten thousand per annum.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It is a rectory, but a small one; the late incumbent, I believe, did not make more than 200 L per annum, and though it is certainly capable of improvement, I fear, not to such an amount as to afford him a very comfortable income.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

All that is required of you is, to assure to your daughter, by settlement, her equal share of the five thousand pounds secured among your children after the decease of yourself and my sister; and, moreover, to enter into an engagement of allowing her, during your life, one hundred pounds per annum.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Having sought and obtained an audience of the superintendent during the noontide recreation, I told her I had a prospect of getting a new situation where the salary would be double what I now received (for at Lowood I only got 15 pounds per annum); and requested she would break the matter for me to Mr. Brocklehurst, or some of the committee, and ascertain whether they would permit me to mention them as references.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could not receive it as a gift, said Mr. Micawber, full of fire and animation, but if a sufficient sum could be advanced, say at five per cent interest, per annum, upon my personal liability—say my notes of hand, at twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four months, respectively, to allow time for something to turn up—

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If J.E., who advertised in the —shire Herald of last Thursday, possesses the acquirements mentioned, and if she is in a position to give satisfactory references as to character and competency, a situation can be offered her where there is but one pupil, a little girl, under ten years of age; and where the salary is thirty pounds per annum.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)