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ANNUALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annually mean? 

ANNUALLY (adverb)
  The adverb ANNUALLY has 2 senses:

1. without missing a yearplay

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

  Familiarity information: ANNUALLY used as an adverb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANNUALLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Without missing a year

Synonyms:

annually; each year; every year; yearly

Context example:

they travel to China annually

Pertainym:

annual (occurring or payable every year)


Sense 2

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 


About 100 million sharks are caught and killed by humans annually, around 7 per cent of the total population, which is not naturally sustainable.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

Sporadic CJD is the most common human prion disease, affecting about one in one million people annually worldwide.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)

The common wax worm, or Galleria mellonella, researchers say, can eat plastic and could help reduce the waste caused by the one trillion polyethylene plastic bags used around the world annually.

(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)

Annually, some 300,000 new cases of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) are diagnosed worldwide, and it claims about 15,000 lives per year.

(Scientists identify how the exosomes of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease affect heart cells, University of Granada)

“To put this in perspective, as a result of this increase, the risk of heart attack due to NSAIDs is on average about one percent annually,” researchers wrote.

(Common Painkillers Linked to Increased Risk for Heart Attack, VOA)

About half of the 700 million tonnes of rice harvested annually across the world is subjected to parboiling.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)

It meets at least three times annually to examine ongoing research, new technologies, issues arising in delivery of care, and problems faced in the Nation's battle against cancer.

(National Cancer Policy Board, NCI Thesaurus)

Most gerbils used in pre-clinical research are agouti-colored and comprise less than 0.5% of total rodent usage annually.

(Mongolian Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus)

Grants are funded based on scientific merit, program relevance, and program balance and are made annually.

(Cancer Center Support Grant Application, NCI Thesaurus)

A new study from University of Colorado Boulder shows these excess emissions alone lead to 38,000 premature deaths annually worldwide.

(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



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