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year's purchase

year's purchase noun: the amount yielded by the annual income of property; used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in computing the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.

Noun

year's purchase (plural years' purchase)

  1. The amount yielded by the annual income of property; used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in computing the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.

Forms of year's purchase

pluralyears' purchase

Questions about year's purchase

What does year's purchase mean?
Year's purchase means the amount yielded by the annual income of property; used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in computing the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.
What part of speech is year's purchase?
Year's purchase is a noun.
What is the plural of year's purchase?
The plural of year's purchase is years' purchase.

Words near year's purchase in the dictionary

  1. year out
  2. year to date
  3. Year Without a Summer
  4. year zero
  5. year's mind
  6. year's purchase
  7. year-around
  8. year-bird
  9. year-birds
  10. year-book
  11. year-books

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