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English Dictionary: annual	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
annual adj completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants" Synonym(s): annual, one-year Antonym(s): biennial, perennial, two-year occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" Synonym(s): annual, yearly n (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year a reference book that is published regularly once every year Synonym(s): annual, yearly, yearbook
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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: (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay. (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. (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. 2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. 3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health. 4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon. 5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson. {Tax cart}, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.] Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Annual \An"nual\, n. 1. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year. 2. Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual* plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. --Swift. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Annual \An"nual\ (?; 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. The annual* overflowing of the river [Nile]. --Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. A thousand pound a year, annual support. --Shak. 2. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. --Bacon.