annual

Noun · Adjective

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Noun (2)

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
a reference book that is published regularly once every yearSynonyms: yearly yearbook

Adjective (2)

completing its life cycle within a year“a border of annual flowering plants”Synonyms: one-year
occurring or payable every year“an annual trip to Paris”“yearly medical examinations”“annual (or yearly) income”Synonyms: yearly

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.]

1.A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. [1913 Webster]

A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] (b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.

Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc. [1913 Webster] (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. [1913 Webster]

2.A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. [1913 Webster]

3.A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health. [1913 Webster]

4.Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]

5.A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]

Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Annual \An"nu*al\, n.

1.A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year. [1913 Webster]

2.Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant. [1913 Webster]

Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets.— Swift.[1913 Webster]

3.(R. C. Ch.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day. [1913 Webster]

Annual \An"nu*al\ (?; 135), a. [OE. annuel, F. annuel, fr. L. annualis, fr. annus year. Cf. Annals.]

1.Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. [1913 Webster]

The annual overflowing of the river [Nile].— Ray.[1913 Webster]

2.Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. [1913 Webster]

A thousand pound a year, annual support.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]