Meaning of person-year | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

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Examples

“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.”

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