twice-yearly

adjective

Happening twice each year; semi-annual; biannual.

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Meanings

adjectivetwice-yearly (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHappening twice each year; semi-annual; biannual.

    Twice-Yearly Surveys of Affluent Americans

    2008, The American Affluence Research Centre website
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    While the migrations of many butterflies now appear to be twice-yearly movements away from and back to the same areas, they differ from those of birds in ...

    1950, British Ecological Society, “The Journal of Animal Ecology”, in Science, Blackwell, page 66

    At the twice-yearly IATA timetable co-ordination meetings, airlines from ...

    1992, Rigas Doganis, The Airport Business, Routledge, →ISBN, page 101
adverbtwice-yearly (not comparable)
  1. not comparableUK & CommonwealthTwice each year; semi-yearly; biannually.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
biannualsemiannual
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APA

twice-yearly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twice-yearly

MLA

“twice-yearly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twice-yearly. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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