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

Corporate Traveler, the flagship SME division of Flight Centre Travel Group, announced the release of its Business Travel 2025 Year-in-Review, an annual report delivering a comprehensive retrospective of the key trends, behaviors and destinations that defined the business travel over the past year. —Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026

Both county commissioners and service providers would be required to create annual reports for the Health Department, which the agency would review for compliance. —Maddy Keyes, The Frontier, 22 Jan. 2026

There were about 25,000 fewer deaths from cardiovascular disease and strokes in 2023, compared to 2022, the most recent data available, the annual report released Wednesday says. —Allison Aubrey, NPR, 22 Jan. 2026

However, cities that saw no surges of either troops or federal agents saw similar historic drops in violent and other crimes, according to the Council’s annual report. —Claudia Lauer, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026

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