"man-year" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: man-years [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} man-year (plural man-years)
  1. 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. Categories (topical): Units of measure Synonyms: person-year Related terms: man-day, man-hour, man-month Translations (one person's working time): henkilötyövuosi (Finnish), année-homme (French), anno-uomo [masculine] (Italian), 人年 (ninnen) (Japanese)

Inflected forms

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