year's purchase

See also: years' purchase

English

Noun

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.
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