Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Happening every two years.
- adjective Happening twice a year; semiyearly.
- adverb Every two years.
- adverb Twice a year; semiyearly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Occurring every two years;
biennial - adjective Occurring twice per year;
biannual - adverb Every two years;
biennially - adverb Twice per year;
biannually
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb every two years
- adjective occurring or payable twice each year
- adverb twice a year
- adjective occurring every second year
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Examples
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There's still the biyearly Northwestern minefield and the quadrennial recruiting junket to Hawaii to deal with, and that's beyond the fact the Beat Michigan Club isn't exactly exclusive these last two years.
JSOnline.com 2009
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The biyearly report, which looks at application usage on 200 different enterprise networks around the world, found a dramatic increase in social media usage inside the enterprise.
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The conciliative is a supposedly pretentious for osmotically shinny and a fantabulous saltpetre for an biyearly sugi.
Rational Review 2009
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