person-year: Meaning and Definition of

per•son-year

Pronunciation: (pûr'sun-yēr"), [key]
— n.
  1. a unit of measurement, esp. in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.
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