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per annum en · ADP

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin per annum, English from the 16th century.

Meanings

1. In a year.
   • Salt fish for dinner twice every week, or 104 times per annum, is abominable. 1876 August 15, “Mr [Charles] Reade and the Glasgow Old Man’s Home”, in North British Daily Mail, number 9,186, Glasgow: Gunn & Cameron, →OCLC, page 2, column 4:
2. For a year.
   • Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum. 1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917:

Forms

Synonyms

per year · annually · yearly

Translations (11)

hi वार्षिक (in a year) · cs ročně (for each year) · fi vuosittain (for each year) · ur سالانہ (in a year) · fi vuodessa (for each year) · fr par an (for each year) · fi joka vuosi (in a year) · fi vuosittain (in a year) · nl per jaar (in a year) · hy տարեկան (for each year) · hy տարեկան (in a year)