Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

year's purchase

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

Syllables: year's pur-chase
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

years' purchase (plural)

Questions

What does year's purchase mean?: 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.

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