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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
biannual
adjective
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▪ An independent data and safety monitoring board compared the frequency of all adverse events in the two groups during three biannual meetings.
▪ In late spring, Jody flies to San Francisco for the biannual Pac-10 coaches meeting.
▪ It is for the benefit of the inspectors who come up from Paris for the biannual audits.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biannual

Biannual \Bi*an"nu*al\, a. [Pref. bi- + annual.] Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
biannual

also bi-annual; "occurring every six months, twice a year," 1837, from bi- + annual. Related: Biannually; bi-annually.

Wiktionary
biannual

a. 1 semiannual: occurring twice a year 2 (context proscribed through conflation with biennial English) occurring once every two years. n. Something occurring twice each year.

WordNet
biannual

adj. occurring or payable twice each year [syn: semiannual, biyearly]

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Biannual

Usage examples of "biannual".

Not only was it a busy week, but the hospital was to hold its biannual bazaar at the weekend.

John, like all the other local children, had been invited up to the hall for the biannual parties her grandparents gave for their tenants and neighbours.

When I was a boy, we sledded down its great slope on pizza pans, on those biannual occasions when Natchez got its inch of snow.

Flowering gwine bushes and miniature tomri fruit trees kept to their designated patches, surrounded by perfect beds of perennials, biannuals, and quarternials.

A data profile of names, dates, figures, promotions, training grades, personal biography, medical reports, biannual Security reviews, her ex-husband.

Of course, if he was going to keep control of the situation, he was going to have to stop biting Selena on the boob, even on a biannual basis.

However, no written agenda or minutes of the biannual parleys ever existed.

He was still leery about the prospects of bringing in a balor, but the carrot, his first victory in one of the guild's biannual contests, was too juicy to ignore.

I'm not cer­tain what product she uses to achieve the effect (prob­ably something she smuggles in from Budapest on her biannual trips home), but it usually renders her scalp a fiery pink along the part.