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person-year

/pur-suhn-yeer/US // ˈpɜr sənˌyɪər //

人年,人岁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.

Examples

  • 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.

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

  • Grindr introduced the feature themselves in October the same year and called it ‘tribes.’

  • In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.

  • In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.

  • Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

  • But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.

  • The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.

  • Twice a year the formal invitation was sent out by the old nobleman to his only son, and to his two nephews.