Person-year
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Person-year is a noun meaning 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.
Meaning
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.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- person-years
Synonyms for person-year
Depending on context, synonyms include man-year.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stateman, humanpower, wanderyear, hundredary, quintennial, mononom.
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