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to annualize

to annualize

7 6.8
To calculate a yearly amount from a shorter time period or make something happen every year
  • verb
  • /ˈæn.ju.ə.laɪz/
  • Specialized
: anualizar
  • To understand the performance better, we annualized the figures from the last quarter.
  • annualized costs
  • annualized rate
  • annualized growth rate

On one hand, yesterday stocks plummeted after we got the annualized GDP report.

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Examples

  • Estimating annualized vehicle costs requires an estimate of miles driven per year.

    Academic text (1993)

  • We were growing at a 1.8 percent or 1.9 percent (annualized rate), and now we're at 1.5 percent.

    Blog text (19)

  • Then we'll be looking at GDP annualized, which will comes out next week as well.

  • The last column is the annualized growth rate of inflation-adjusted GDP.

    Blog text (5)

  • On one hand, yesterday stocks plummeted after we got the annualized GDP report.

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  • The economy isn't miserable: it grew 3.3% last quarter, which is a flat 12% annualized growth rate.

    Blog text (32)

  • In the last three months of 2010, credit card balances rose at an annualized rate of 2.7%, the highest since mid-2008.

    Blog text (6)

  • First, let's examine the GDP growth figures (annualized) for the first two quarters of 2012.

    Blog text (25)

  • Karr, again, is in the camp of a buy-and-hold strategy that has seen annualized returns on his investments of over 22%.

    Blog text (29)

  • In fall 2002, the college had a total enrollment of 8,331 students, with an annualized full-time enrollment of 2,728.

    Academic text (2003)

Surface Forms

annualize infinitive
annualized past
annualized past participle
annualizing present participle
annualizes third person singular

Morphology

annualize = annual (transparent) = annual + ize

The verb is a regular derivation from the adjective 'annual' with the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' meaning 'to make or express as yearly'.

Etymology

The word annualize comes from the Latin root annus meaning 'year' and the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. So, annualize means to 'make' something into a yearly amount or to treat it as if it happens every year.