man hour
2
3.0
- noun
- /mæn aʊər/
- Specialized
:
hora-hombre
- My preliminary estimate is that it will take us about 160 man hours for the processing steps.
- thousand man hours
- many man hours
Your income per man hour is in each country is a measure of your productivity.
- Your income per man hour is in each country is a measure of your productivity.
Examples
-
Do you know how many man-hours we've spent on this case?
-
The labor and man-hours these roads must have taken blow my mind—hundreds of years old.
Blog text (31) -
Your income per man hour is in each country is a measure of your productivity.
-
Mother, do you realize how many man hours we have wasted?
-
By September 1944, the average number of man hours was cut in half to just over 600,000.
Academic text (2009) -
Billions of dollars and untold man-hours have been spent to change the climate.
Blog text (9) -
The Internet is beautiful in many ways, but one of its most elegant assets is the man-hours that are always put into finding new solutions to old problems.
Blog text (21) -
We've already spent 1,800 man-hours on this case...
-
We have spent hundreds of man hours developing that campaign.
-
Do you know how many man hours we've spent on this project?
Synonyms
6
3.4
The work one person does in one hour
1
3.6
The amount of work one person does in one hour
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'man hour' is directly compositional: 'man' used generically as 'person' plus 'hour' yields the idea of one person's hour of work. A B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a unit measuring labor/time (often expressed cross-linguistically as 'person-hour'), so the meaning is transparently derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Man hour comes from a plain idea: one man working for one hour to do a job. So people use it to count or plan work, meaning the 'amount of work one person can do in one hour'.