yearly

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The profits should be divided half-yearly, after paying expenses of ship and show We ran under this agreement several years, and exhibited all the way from Boston to Rio, according to the season, and sometimes went inland up navigable rivers, such as to Albany and Philadelphia.

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  1. adjective Occurring once a year or every year.
  2. adverb Once a year; annually.
  3. noun A publication issued once a year.

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  • Wash., could reduce vehicle miles traveled by 91 million miles yearly, and reduce CO2 emissions by 58,000 tons a year, through "SmartRoutes" - an $11 million program to upgrade roads and trails to encourage bike and pedestrian travel. —  Stateline.org RSS - stories
  • American gun owners buy about 7 billion rounds of ammunition yearly, according to the National Rifle Association.
  • Those have been put out there for local monthly, yearly, and quarterly meetings (or other Friends 'organizations) to take advantage of. —  QuakerQuaker.org
  • More than 9.5 million people come to or walk through the square yearly, and about 300 event days are on its annual schedule. —  Today in Oregon: The Oregonian
  • That country has maintained an average economic growth of about 6 per cent yearly, a strong job creation policy, high foreign investments and entrenched laudable fiscal policies which have made the inflation rate manageable in an emerging market. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
 

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  1. from Middle English yeerly, from Anglo-Saxon geárlīc (= German jährlich); as year + -ly.
  2. from Middle English yerely; from yearly, adjective
 

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/ˈyirli/
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