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

Reducing this argument to simple numbers, the note points out annualized hyperscaler investment is approaching $1 trillion while annual recurring revenue in the whole AI ecosystem sits around one-fifth of that.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Research shows S&P 500 annualized returns over the past 40 years beat housing-price returns in every state and local market on a posttax basis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Rarely has the Aristocrats’ annualized 10-year price-only growth rate been lower than that.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Between the November of a midterm election year and the following April, small-capitalization stocks have had an almost unbelievable average total return of 42% annualized over the past century, according to data from Leuthold Group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

So far this year, that sum is annualizing at a relatively paltry $14 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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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