annual update

Meanings

1. 1nouncountable

   A report or new version of something that is produced once every year.

   Grammar: Countable: you can say an annual update or two annual updates.

   Patterns

   • an annual update on something
   • an annual update to something
   • give/provide an annual update

   The company sends customers an annual update on its prices.

   We publish an annual update of the safety guidelines each January.

   Her annual update to the family newsletter arrived in December.

2. 2nouncountable or uncountablecomputing

   The yearly act of adding the newest information or changes to a record, app, or document.

   Grammar: Often used as a fixed phrase after verbs like do or carry out: do the annual update.

   Patterns

   • do the annual update
   • the annual update of something

   The annual update of the tax tables takes the accounting team a week.

   Users must install the annual update before the old version stops working.

Word forms

Common combinations

annual update report

The annual update report summarizes last year's progress.

annual update meeting

At the annual update meeting, managers present their results.

publish an annual update

The agency publishes an annual update every spring.

receive an annual update

Members receive an annual update by email.

Synonyms and how they differ

yearly review

Sounds more like a formal assessment of performance than a simple report of changes.

annual report

Usually a longer official document from a company or organization, not just a short update.

Word family

update noun

A change or piece of new information added to something.

update verb

To add the newest information to something.

annually adverb

Once every year.

Commonly confused: annual update or annual report?

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