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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
yearly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
basis
▪ Students are allocated accommodation on a yearly basis, though payment is by termly instalments.
▪ Standardized testing for all students on a yearly basis, with test scores to be reported in the media.
▪ Some of these are updated on a quarterly rather than a yearly basis.
income
▪ That amounts to a total yearly income of £3,179.80.
▪ Today the mean yearly income of families of students receiving financial aid, she believes, is approximately $ 36, 000.
▪ It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan - in total a yearly income of just £2,685.
▪ Money holdings usually exceed hourly but not yearly income. 3.
▪ This concession cost the order ten percent of its yearly income.
▪ The average monthly benefit in 1993 was $ 377, a yearly income of $ 4, 524.
▪ The Daughery family made their meager yearly income following the harvest.
salary
▪ You should take some time off, even if your yearly salary is what Bill Gates earns in a nanosecond.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Investments are reviewed yearly.
▪ Subscribers receive yearly updates on our new services.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How efficient the place was - a model clearing house for death, turning out its yearly quota of corpses.
▪ In Hampshire, schools were asked to select one of four yearly phases for the introduction of the scheme.
▪ Standardized testing for all students on a yearly basis, with test scores to be reported in the media.
▪ That amounts to a total yearly income of £3,179.80.
▪ This concession cost the order ten percent of its yearly income.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yearly

Yearly \Year"ly\, a. [AS. ge['a]rlic.]

  1. Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.

  2. Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.

  3. Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth.
    --Shak.

Yearly

Yearly \Year"ly\, adv. [AS. ge['a]rlice.] Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.

Yearly will I do this rite.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yearly

Old English gearlic "yearly, of the year, annual;" see year + -ly (1).

Wiktionary
yearly

a. Happening once every year. adv. 1 Once a year. 2 Every year. n. Something that is published once a year.

WordNet
yearly
  1. adj. occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" [syn: annual]

  2. adv. without missing a year; "they travel to China annually" [syn: annually, every year, each year]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "yearly".

These facts are recorded in the yearly newsletter, released at Commencement, Leonie had distributed by her Department to colleagues on the campus, to alumnae, and pandemically to friends and contacts.

Shere Mahomed, Ameer of Meerpore, on his own application was allowed, on the payment of half a lac of rupees yearly, to participate in the treaty granted to the Ameers of Hyderabad.

Large tracts of country about here once laid out for arable are now converted into grazing grounds, for the number of cattle is yearly on the increase.

I felt the deprivation exceedingly of not attending the last Yearly Meeting, but quite think it may have been all for the best.

After attending the Leeds Quarterly Meeting in the Third Month, they returned to their home at Scarborough, but soon left it again to be present at the Yearly Meeting in London.

In visiting the meetings in those parts we were measurably baptized into a feeling of the state of the Society, and in bowedness of spirit went to the Yearly Meeting at Newport, where we met with John Storer from England, Elizabeth Shipley, Ann Gaunt, Hannah Foster, and Mercy Redman, from our parts, all ministers of the gospel, of whose company I was glad.

And Joe had learned that among the people Haj Harun visited on his yearly rounds in the Holy City, along with the nameless cobbler near Damascus Gate whose cubbyhole Haj Harun could never find, along with the nameless muttering man who ceaselessly paced back and forth on the steps to the crypt in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, along with them there had once been a pious linguistic genius with whom Haj Harun had conversed in Aramaic, the language spoken in Palestine two and three thousand years ago.

From time beyond remembrance the goldfinch or swallow, or any one of the migrating birds has made his two yearly journeys from one land to another--one way in the spring, the other in the fall.

He told me, much to my surprise, that his bishopric, although not one of little importance, brought him in only five hundred ducat-diregno yearly, and that, unfortunately, he had contracted debts to the amount of six hundred.

In less than six weeks three of her girls made excellent marriages, and six hundred crowns had been added to the yearly income of the house.

As nearly as I can estimate, my hens give thirty per cent egg returns as a yearly average--about 120 eggs for each hen in 365 days.

Rightly concluding that Frithiof would lend the kings no aid, Hilding returned to Helge and Halfdan, who, forced to fight without their bravest leader, preferred to make a treaty with Sigurd Ring, promising to give him not only their sister Ingeborg, but also a yearly tribute.

In my presence he assigned to her the yearly income for her life of two hundred Venetian ducats, and by a second deed he gave her all the contents of the house with which he was going to provide her, provided always that she lived with him for a year.

At length a yearly honorarium was sent to him, and then again, after a dignified delay, there was forwarded to him a suggestion from the Cabinet that he should come to Brisbane and take a more important position.

The first man to sight land was supposed to get a yearly pension of 10,000 maravedis for life, but Rodrigo never got it.