"year's purchase" meaning in All languages combined

See year's purchase on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: years' purchase [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|years' purchase}} year's purchase (plural years' purchase)
  1. The amount yielded by the annual income of property; used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in computing the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.
    Sense id: en-year's_purchase-en-noun-QjxfOWPZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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