English
Etymology
bi- + L. annus year + -al
Adjective
biannual
- Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.
- rfv-sense proscribed Occurring every two years; biennial.
#*1993, World Bank, Developing the Occupied Territories: An Investment in Peace, volume 4, Agriculture, ISBN 0821326910, page 1,
#*: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... .
#*1997, Steven Blakemore, Intertextual War, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ISBN 0838637515, pages 190�192,
#*:Thus he argues that the members of the National Assembly were independent from the constituencies that elected them, because the latter (the assemblies, administrative and elected) are "biennially renewed," as was the National Assembly.... This [being responsible to electors] is implicitly the case of the representatives in the National Assembly, who must also face biannual elections....
#*2001, Kenneth I. Wolpin, Empirical Methods for the Study of Labor Force Dynamics, Routledge, ISBN 0415269407, page 84,
#*:Now, after having solved the biannual period problem back to period one of the ten biannual periods, i.e. quarters 77�84... .
#*2004, Lee Penn, False Dawn, Sophia Perennis, ISBN 159731000X, page 380, footnote 3,
#*:"The Earth Charter opens a new phase...." (Mikhail Gorbachev, as quoted in The Earth Charter Initiative, Biannual Report 2002�2003, Earth Charter International Secretariat, <nowiki>http://www.earthcharter.org/files/resources/Biannual%20Report.pdf</nowiki>, p 10,...).
Usage notes
To avoid confusion, it may be best to avoid this word where its intent is unclear, especially when the proscribed sense, "every two years", is meant. term|semiannual|Semiannual can be used to mean "every six months", and term|biennial to mean "every two years".
Translations
trans-top|occurring twice a year
Finnish: t|fi|puolivuosittainen
German: halbjährlich
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trans-top|occurring every two years
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