Andrew Su, CEO at brokerage Compass Global Markets said the average cost of producing gold in Australia, home to some of the world's biggest gold miners, has jumped from $500 an ounce in 2007 to over $1,000 an ounce this year.
Persons (plural) is a very formal word. We only use it in rather legalistic contexts: [notice in a lift] Any person or persons found in possession of illegal substances will be prosecuted.
This man is a person. noun. The definition of a person is an individual human being. An example of a person is one man. pl. -Â·sons or peoâ²ple a human being, esp. as distinguished from a thing or lower animal; individual man, woman, or child: the plural in this sense is now also people, which formerly was used only for an indefinite number of persons.