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biannual

  • /bʌɪˈanjuːəl/ UK
  • /baɪˈænjuəl/ US

adjective bi-annual

  1. not comparable Occurring twice a year; semiannual. The annual values were disaggregated into biannual values. Then the biannual values were disaggregated into quarterly values. Finally the quarterly values were disaggregated into the desired monthly values.

    Similar: half-yearly, semiannual, twice-yearly

  2. not comparable, proscribed Occurring once every two years; biennial. The relative share of agriculture in GDP of the West Bank (calculated on the basis of fixed 1986 prices, and as a two-year average to deal with the major biannual fluctuations in olive production) declined[…].

    Similar: biennial

noun biannuals

  1. Something occurring twice each year. It was a biannual from April 1970 to October 1977 and has been a quarterly since fall 1978.

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adj occurring twice a year; semi-annual

Españolbianual
हिन्दीअर्धवार्षिक ardhavārṣik
Portuguêsbianual
Deutschhalbjährlich
Italianosemestrale
Ελληνικάεξαμηνιαίος examiniaíos, διετής dietís
Русскийполугоди́чный polugodíčnyj

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@misc{biannual_2026,
  title = {biannual},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/biannual},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}