Meronyms: person-hour, man-hour < person-day, man-day < person-month, man-month
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Person-year
Synonyms for "person-year" (1 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Translations
6 translations across 6 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 人年 noun (one person's working time)
Finnish
1 entries- henkilötyövuosi noun (one person's working time)
French
1 entries- année-homme noun (one person's working time)
Greek
1 entries- ανθρωποέτος noun (one person's working time)
Italian
1 entries- anno-uomo noun (one person's working time)
Japanese
1 entries- 人年 noun (one person's working time)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Altogether it took hundreds of person-years to build the bridge and dam, and such a payroll is not cheap.
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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.
Source: wiktionary
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