Definition of "annualize" [annualize]

• To adjust or calculate so as to reflect a rate that is based on a full year: offers a rate that is annualized at six percent. (verb-transitive)

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• "On an annual basis, Jeff, just to kind of annualize it for you, I would be thinking in terms of 25\% to 30\% for next year."
• "So when you hear people throwing around numbers, it's useful to annualize them -- to think of them in terms of what they'd mean for a normal, full-year budget."
• "Remember that post I did today on the need to annualize the GOP's budget cuts?"