Annually
Meaning of Annually
Once a year; every year.
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Annually in a sentence
The lab publishes results annually.
The firm reviews pricing annually.
The licence fee is paid annually.
The school holds the quiz annually.
Origin of Annually
From annual + -ly; annual comes from Latin annualis, from annus 'year'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, annually marks regular yearly events. Annual reviews keep standards high.
Annually audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "annually" — an adverb, pronounced /ˈænjuəli/, with the stress on "an".
Narrator: Annually means once a year, or measured per year — the calendar's own frequency setting.
Narrator: In plain English, annually is the yearly beat — reviews held annually, salaries stated annually, festivals returning annually.
Narrator: Its root is the year itself — Latin "annus": the same year inside anniversary, annual, and per annum.
Narrator: It carries two precise senses — frequency: audited annually, once each year; and rate: £40,000 annually, the per-year measure.
Narrator: Business runs on it — annually reviewed, annually renewed, billed annually: the corporate heartbeat.
Narrator: Nature keeps its own version — plants flowering annually, birds returning annually: the migration's calendar.
Narrator: Its formal twin is per annum — Latin surviving intact on payslips and contracts.
Narrator: So remember: annually is once around the sun — the frequency and the rate, both set to the year.
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Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Contract-reading confusion — my new lease says the rent is "reviewed annually" and my salary is "£38,000 annually". Same word, but they feel different somehow. Am I imagining it?
Speaker B: Sharp instincts! ANNUALLY — from Latin "annus", year — wears two precise hats. The rent review is FREQUENCY: it happens once each year, an event. The salary is RATE: £38,000 per year, a measure. One word, two grammars — event-counting and amount-measuring!
Speaker A: So annually can mean "once yearly" or "per year"?
Speaker B: Both, and context referees perfectly — "we meet annually" counts meetings; "it costs £200 annually" measures cost. The formal twin PER ANNUM survives on payslips for the rate sense: Latin, still on the ledger after two thousand years.
Speaker A: Example sentences from both grammars?
Speaker B: "The festival is held annually in August"; "the boiler should be serviced annually"; "membership costs eighty pounds annually"; "the swifts return annually to the same eaves" — festivals, boilers, subscriptions, and birds with better calendars than most of us.
Speaker A: Common mistakes with it?
Speaker B: The biannual bog, first — ANNUALLY is clean, but its neighbours are a swamp: BIANNUAL means twice a year, BIENNIAL every two years, and half the world mixes them; "twice yearly" and "every two years" are the fog-free alternatives. Then spelling — double N, and the -ally tail: annu-ally.
Speaker A: Skip the bi-words, speak plainly — the fog lifted! Where does annually rule?
Speaker B: The institutional heartbeat! Companies report annually, appraisals arrive annually, taxes fall due annually, and subscriptions renew annually — usually with a discount for the commitment. The year is business's natural breath, and annually is its adverb.
Speaker A: The corporate breath — one inhale per fiscal year! And nature's usage?
Speaker B: The older calendar! Plants flower annually, salmon run annually, and gardeners plant ANNUALS — the flowers living one year entire. Nature kept the word's original clock: not the tax year, the sun's.
Speaker A: The sun's own subscription — renewed without invoices! Close relatives?
Speaker B: "Yearly" is the plain Saxon twin — interchangeable, slightly homelier; "per annum" is the Latin on the payslip; "each year" and "every year" spell it out; "annual" is the adjective sibling — the annual report, the annual migration. "Annually" keeps the adverb's precision — once round the sun, on schedule!
Speaker A: Lease and payslip both decoded — one event, one rate, zero confusion.
Speaker B: Reviewed annually, understood permanently!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "annually" in AI prompts — a scheduling word: it sets the yearly cadences apps must honour precisely.
Speaker A: So annually in a prompt defines the yearly clock?
Speaker B: Exactly. For billing, you'd write:
Prompt: Add annual billing to my subscription app — an annually-billed plan at two months' discount, the renewal date shown plainly on the account page, a reminder email thirty days before renewal, and proration handled when users switch mid-year. The yearly commitment, honestly managed.
Speaker B: The thirty-day reminder is the trust line — annual renewals that surprise are churn machines.
Speaker A: The renewal that never ambushes — billing decency! Compliance?
Speaker B: The recurrence prompt:
Prompt: Schedule my annually-required tasks in my compliance app — insurance renewals, certificate expiries, and safety inspections each recurring yearly from their own anniversary date, with escalating reminders at sixty, thirty, and seven days. The yearly duties that never slip a year.
Speaker A: Duties that never slip — compliance on rails! Reporting?
Speaker B: The year-report prompt:
Prompt: Generate my annually-compiled report automatically — every January, last year's key metrics assembled into one document: totals, monthly trends, and comparisons against the prior year, drafted for review before sending. The year's story, written while it's fresh.
Speaker A: The year's story, self-drafting — January's gift! Rates?
Speaker B: The display prompt:
Prompt: Show costs both monthly and annually across my pricing page — every plan states both figures with the annual saving computed and labelled, and the same convention in receipts and account pages. Two clocks, one truth, no arithmetic left to the customer.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: The data-hygiene prompt:
Prompt: Run an annually-triggered data review in my app — each year, users see a summary of their stored data with one-tap options to download, tidy, or delete, logged for compliance. The spring clean, on the sun's own schedule.
Speaker A: So "annually" disciplines the billing, rails the compliance, drafts the year's story, doubles the price clocks, and schedules the spring clean.
Speaker B: Exactly — the once-round-the-sun adverb: set the yearly cadence explicitly, and nothing renews, expires, or reports by surprise.
Frequently asked questions about Annually
What does Annually mean?
Once a year; every year.
ما معنى كلمة Annually بالعربي؟
سنوياً — 📅🔄 سنوياً بصفة دورية كل عام؛ مرة كل اثني عشر شهراً؛ ظرف زمان يُشير للتكرار السنوي المنتظم 📅✨
How do you pronounce Annually?
Annually is pronounced /ˈænjuəli/ and is used as an adverb.
How is Annually used in a sentence?
The lab publishes results annually.
What are synonyms of Annually?
yearly, every year, once a year, per annum, each year, year by year.