annual report

noun

plural annual reports
: a usually lengthy report issued yearly by an organization giving an account of its internal workings and especially its finances

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Both critics and defenders of the county’s stewardship draw selectively from annual reports by Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, an independent state agency that helps local educational agencies with management and financial issues. — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 Washington and Baltimore are among the riskiest for driving in the United States, according to an annual report by Allstate. — Liam Scott, Washington Post, 9 July 2026 That plan includes annual reports from iHeart, a disclosure of an anti-payola policy to artists and other disclosures on artists performing at iHeart’s events. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2026 Yardzen is a landscape design and design platform, and recently released its sixth annual report, which draws on six years of proprietary data from tens of thousands of Yardzen projects around the country. — Terri Williams, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for annual report

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First Known Use

1724, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of annual report was in 1724

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annual report

noun
annual re·​port
: a written report distributed to shareholders each year by a corporation that sets forth financial information (as an auditor's report, the selling prices of the corporation's stock, and the yearly profit) as well as statements by the corporation's management
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