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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One person's working time for a year, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task..
Meronyms: person-hour, man-hour < person-day, man-day < person-month, man-month
Altogether it took hundreds of person-years to build the bridge and dam, and such a payroll is not cheap.
This is especially true for Black women. the rate of deaths from breast cancer among Black women in their 40s was 27 per 100,000 person-years, compared to 15 per 100,000 person-years among White women, according to a 2023 JAMA Network Open study.
Use person-year when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Person-year means One person's working time for a year, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task..
Common synonyms include man-year.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Meronyms: person-hour, man-hour < person-day, man-day < person-month, man-month
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