person-year en · NOUN
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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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.
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.
2024 May 8, Katia Hetter, “Mammograms are now recommended starting at age 40. Should you get one?”, in CNN:Altogether it took hundreds of person-years to build the bridge and dam, and such a payroll is not cheap.
Meronyms: person-hour, man-hour < person-day, man-day < person-month, man-month
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| person-years | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (6)
cmn 人年 (one person's working time) · el ανθρωποέτος (one person's working time) · ja 人年 (one person's working time) · it anno-uomo (one person's working time) · fi henkilötyövuosi (one person's working time) · fr année-homme (one person's working time)