Per annum

prep_phrase

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) wordnet
Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    In a year.
  2. 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."

Etymology

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

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