annualize

American  

[an-yoo-uh-lahyz] / ˈæn ju əˌlaɪz /

(especially British) annualise

verb (used with object)

annualized, annualizing

1. to calculate for or as for an entire year.

   Investors earned an annualized rate of seven percent paid quarterly.

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verb (used without object)

annualized, annualizing

1. to be annualized.

annualize British  

/ ˈænjʊəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to convert (a rate of interest) to an annual rate when it is quoted for a period of less than a year

   credit card companies are obliged to quote an annualized percentage rate to borrowers

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Etymology

Origin of annualize

annual + -ize

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

annualize annualized annualizing

Ubisoft doesn’t just annualize a successful series, it releases multiple games in that franchise in the same year.

From The Verge ● Jun. 4, 2015

At that hour Monsieur Chillman asked me if some steps could not be taken to annualize the meeting, and he requested me to prepare and propose a resolution to that effect.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake

Housing starts in the country came in at a seasonally-adjusted annualized rate of 229,046 units in August, little changed from the month before, the national housing agency said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

However, the FT and Bloomberg both reported that the discrepancy was tied to differences between how the ChatGPT maker and its rival, Anthropic, determine annualized revenue.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

By the time the policy ended in late 2023, her annualized return had come to 3.7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

A Financial Times report said OpenAI’s annualized revenue would be $50 billion—$20 billion below market expectations—prompting a tech selloff Thursday, before Bloomberg reported that the frontier AI model remains on track to hit $70 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Inflation is down from 12.4 percent to 8.9, and for the month of December it was running at an annualized rate of 5.2 percent.

From State of the Union Address by Ronald Reagan

The $5,000 dividend stands in comparison to the roughly $65,000 the median full-time worker makes, based on Labor Department statistics for the second quarter and annualizing them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The new terms fuel fee growth in the second half of this year and the first half of 2027 before annualizing and reverting to a typical high-single-digit percentage growth rate, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

“This print is a major validation of the memory supercycle thesis but I wouldn’t value Micron by simply annualizing peak margins forever,” Futurum chief market strategist Shay Boloor said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Things could change if tariffs on South Korea imports rise to 25%, the company says, but annualizing its mitigation efforts should result in greater savings in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

Obviously, the miracle of compounding works better when the figures are bigger, but annualizing May’s performance would result in full-year gains of 16.6% for the S&P and 17.9% for both the Dow and the R3K.

From Forbes ● Jun. 4, 2015

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