person-year
person-year 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.
Noun
person-year (plural person-years)
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- man-year
Synonyms of person-year
Forms of person-year
| plural | person-years |
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Origin of person-year
Compound of person + year, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., ton-miles, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X persons working during Y years = X × Y = Z person-years.
Questions about person-year
- What does person-year mean?
- 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.
- What part of speech is person-year?
- Person-year is a noun.
- What is the plural of person-year?
- The plural of person-year is person-years.
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