man-hour

See also: manhour

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From man +‎ hour.

Noun

man-hour (plural man-hours)

  1. The amount of work that can be done by one person in an hour.
    Coordinate term: machine-hour
    Ten workers for two days—that's 160 man-hours.
    • 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
      [...] every man has tools and amenities always within one minute's walk; thus non-productive man-hours are kept to a minimum.
    • 1962 January 11, John F. Kennedy, Second State of the Union Address:
      Since 1950 our agricultural output per man-hour has actually doubled!

Translations

See also
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.