"person-year" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Compound of person + year, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., ton-miles, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X persons working during Y years = X × Y = Z person-years.",
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          "text": "Meronyms: person-hour, man-hour < person-day, man-day < person-month, man-month"
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          "text": "Altogether it took hundreds of person-years to build the bridge and dam, and such a payroll is not cheap.",
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          "text": "This is especially true for Black women. the rate of deaths from breast cancer among Black women in their 40s was 27 per 100,000 person-years, compared to 15 per 100,000 person-years among White women, according to a 2023 JAMA Network Open study.",
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        "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."
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "one person's working time",
          "word": "henkilötyövuosi"
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          "sense": "one person's working time",
          "word": "année-homme"
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          "sense": "one person's working time",
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          "word": "anno-uomo"
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          "roman": "ninnen",
          "sense": "one person's working time",
          "word": "人年"
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      "sense": "one person's working time",
      "word": "henkilötyövuosi"
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      "sense": "one person's working time",
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      "word": "anno-uomo"
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