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man-year

/man-yeer/US // ˈmænˌyɪər //

人年,人工年,人岁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on a standard number of man-days in a year of work.

Examples

  • In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

  • However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.

  • The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

  • The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.

  • The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

  • He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.