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

Examples of annual report in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The 2025 annual report doesn’t break out numbers for those two divisions. —Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 19 Mar. 2025

School districts began complying in 2018, but a Chalkbeat investigation found that no state agency was collecting the annual reports. —Melanie Asmar, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025

Zoom in: The United Nations agency's annual report, which dates back to 1993, doesn't contain many surprises for those closely following climate science. —Andrew Freedman, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025

This comes a week after China’s Premier Li Qiang delivered an annual report on government work that named boosting consumption as the top task for the year ahead. —Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1724, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for annual report

• abort
• airport
• alport
• athwart
• carport
• comport
• consort
• deport
• distort
• escort
• exhort
• extort

Legal Definition

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