PER YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does per year mean? 

• PER YEAR (adverb)
  The adverb PER YEAR has 1 sense:

1. by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)

  Familiarity information: PER YEAR used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PER YEAR (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)

Synonyms:

annually; each year; p.a.; per annum; per year

Context example:

we issue six volumes per annum

 Context examples 

Sepsis is responsible for a million infant deaths per year, most of them in the developing world, but options to prevent it are limited.

(Friendly gut bacteria can help fight infant deaths, SciDev.Net )

However, the new research shows worldwide emissions of CCl4 average 39 kilotons per year, approximately 30 percent of peak emissions prior to the international treaty going into effect.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)

Over a million cases are seen per year.

(Human Papillomavirus-6, NCI Thesaurus)

Excess emissions from defeat devices have been linked to about 50 to 100 US deaths per year.

(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area, expressed as deaths per 1000 per year.

(Mortality, NCI Thesaurus)

A small, commonly white-colored breed of poultry that is renowned for its ability to produce up to 300 chalk white eggs per year.

(Leghorn Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)

Deserts are defined by low average annual rainfall — usually 100 millimeters (less than 4 inches) of rain per year or less.

(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)

Between 2009 and 2015, it stabilised at an average 6,080 km² per year, with the year 2012 seeing the lowest deforestation rate in the last 20 years (4,571 km²).

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area, expressed per 1000 people in the population per year.

(Birth Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

A premarket submission to FDA for a device intended to benefit patients by treating or diagnosing a condition affecting fewer than 4,000 individuals in the United States per year.

(Humanitarian Device Exemption, NCI Thesaurus)