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per annum

per annum prepositional phrase: in a year.

Prepositional phrase

  1. In a year.
    • Salt fish for dinner twice every week, or 104 times per annum, is abominable.1876 August 15, “Mr [Charles] Reade and the Glasgow Old Man’s Home”, in North British Daily Mail, number 9,186, Glasgow: Gunn & Cameron, →OCLC, page 2, column 4
  2. For a year.
    • Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum.1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917

per annum meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

per annum in Hindi

in a year
वार्षिक vārṣik

per annum in Tamil

ஆண்டொன்றுக்கு, ஓராண்டிற்கு

per annum in Urdu

in a year
سالانہ Salanaa

per annum in Kannada

ಒಂದು ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ, ಒಂದು ಸಾಲಿಗೆ

Synonyms of per annum

Forms of per annum

alternative formper ann.

Origin of per annum

Borrowed from Late Latin per annum, English from the 16th century.

Questions about per annum

What does per annum mean?
Per annum means in a year.
What is per annum in Hindi?
Per annum in Hindi is वार्षिक (vārṣik). See Per annum meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is per annum?
Per annum is a prepositional phrase.

Words near per annum in the dictionary

  1. Pequot
  2. Pequots
  3. per
  4. per accidens
  5. per alia
  6. per annum
  7. per anum
  8. per bend
  9. per bend sinister
  10. per capita
  11. per cent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: per annum (page history and authors); per annum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); per annum (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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