Definition of Half-yearly

1. Adverb. Every half year, every six months.

2. Adjective. Occurring or payable twice each year.

Exact synonyms: Biannual, Biyearly, Semiannual
Similar to: Periodic, Periodical

Definition of Half-yearly

1. Adjective. Two in a year; semiannual. ¹

2. Adverb. Twice in a year; semiannually. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-yearly

half-track
half-tracked
half-tracker
half-tracks
half-truth
half-truths
half-uncle
half-uncles
half-value layer
half-volley
half-width
half-widths
half-wit
half-wits
half-witted
half-yearly (current term)
half a dozen
half a mind
half adder
half amplitude pulse duration
half and half
half and half nail
half aunt
half axial view
half baked
half bath
half bathroom
half baths
half binding

Literary usage of Half-yearly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"... while in his hands; "and that the Master do in such computation make half-yearly rests." The object of that direction is to charge compound interest; ..."

2. The Doctrine of Life-annuities and Assurances: Analytically Investigated by Francis Baily (1864)
"Consequently, the present value of an annuity on the life A, payable half-yearly is equal to -Lp^+« 1n +^1+»2la + ^*£ + v* l„ + etc.l:• a 1 A person who ..."

3. The Doctrine of Chances: Or, a Method of Calculating the Probabilities of by Abraham de Moivre (1756)
"... made Half-Yearly, I have thought Jit to add the two following Problems -, 'whereby, ... what the Half-Yearly Payments ought to be, if the Price of the ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When an annuity is payable half-yearly, the common rule for finding its value is to add -25, or a quarter of a year's purchase, to the value of the annuity ..."

5. Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the by Francis Beaufort Palmer (1881)
"The particular debentures to be redeemed on each occasion will be determined by half-yearly drawings, which the said company will cause to be made at its ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1804)
"Suppose il. in one year can be improved to i+r, in half a year toi -f с: then the value ot an annuity {A~) to continue в years, paid half-yearly is, ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1840)
"Morse, the power to lease was, so as there should be reserved and made payable during the continuance of such lease or leases, by half-yearly payments, ..."

8. Lives of American Merchants by Freeman Hunt (1858)
"... an annuity, or yearly sum of one thousand dollars, to be paid in half- yearly payments, in advance, of five hundred dollars each, during her life. 2d. ..."

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