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twice-yearly

twice-yearly adjective: happening twice each year; semi-annual; biannual.

Adjective

twice-yearly (not comparable)

  1. Happening twice each year; semi-annual; biannual.
    • While the migrations of many butterflies now appear to be twice-yearly movements away from and back to the same areas, they differ from those of birds in ...1950, British Ecological Society, “The Journal of Animal Ecology”, in Science, Blackwell, page 66
    • At the twice-yearly IATA timetable co-ordination meetings, airlines from ...1992, Rigas Doganis, The Airport Business, Routledge, →ISBN, page 101

Adverb

twice-yearly (not comparable)

  1. (UK & Commonwealth) Twice each year; semi-yearly; biannually.

Questions about twice-yearly

What does twice-yearly mean?
Twice-yearly means happening twice each year; semi-annual; biannual.
What part of speech is twice-yearly?
Twice-yearly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near twice-yearly in the dictionary

  1. twice-exceptionality
  2. twice-laid
  3. twice-stabbed stink bug
  4. twice-told
  5. twice-weekly
  6. twice-yearly
  7. twiced
  8. twicer
  9. twicers
  10. twicet
  11. twichild

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