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Definition of Half-yearly
1. Adjective. Occurring or payable twice each year.
2. Adverb. Every half year, every six months.
Definition of Half-yearly
1. Adjective. Two in a year; semiannual. ¹
2. Adverb. Twice in a year; semiannually. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-yearly
Literary usage of Half-yearly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"... while in his hands; "and that the Master do in such computation make half-yearly
rests." The object of that direction is to charge compound interest; ..."
2. The Doctrine of Life-annuities and Assurances: Analytically Investigated by Francis Baily (1864)
"Consequently, the present value of an annuity on the life A, payable half-yearly
is equal to -Lp^+« 1n +^1+»2la + ^*£ + v* l„ + etc.l:• a 1 A person who ..."
3. The Doctrine of Chances: Or, a Method of Calculating the Probabilities of by Abraham de Moivre (1756)
"... made Half-Yearly, I have thought Jit to add the two following Problems -, 'whereby,
... what the Half-Yearly Payments ought to be, if the Price of the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When an annuity is payable half-yearly, the common rule for finding its value is
to add -25, or a quarter of a year's purchase, to the value of the annuity ..."
5. Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the by Francis Beaufort Palmer (1881)
"The particular debentures to be redeemed on each occasion will be determined by
half-yearly drawings, which the said company will cause to be made at its ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1804)
"Suppose il. in one year can be improved to i+r, in half a year toi -f с: then
the value ot an annuity {A~) to continue в years, paid half-yearly is, ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1840)
"Morse, the power to lease was, so as there should be reserved and made payable
during the continuance of such lease or leases, by half-yearly payments, ..."
8. Lives of American Merchants by Freeman Hunt (1858)
"... an annuity, or yearly sum of one thousand dollars, to be paid in half- yearly
payments, in advance, of five hundred dollars each, during her life. 2d. ..."
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