man day

See also: man-day

English

Alternative forms

• man-day, manday

Noun

man day (plural man days)

1. The amount of work that one person can complete in one day, often considered to be equivalent to eight man hours
   • 2014 November 8, Prof G Dennis Shanks, MD, “How World War 1 changed global attitudes to war and infectious diseases”, in The Lancet, volume 384, number 9955, →DOI, page 1703b of 1699–1707:

     For example, in the US army during the 21 months of the war that they were involved in, 6·8 million man days were lost due to STIs, and more than 10% of all disease admissions were for STIs.

Translations

one person's working time

• Dutch: mandag (nl) m
• Finnish: henkilötyöpäivä
• French: jour-homme (fr)
• German: Arbeitstag (de) m, Personentag (de) m, Manntag (de) m
• Japanese: 人工 (ja) (ninku), 人日 (ja) (ninnichi)
• Kazakh: адам-күн (adam-kün)
• Polish: osobodzień m, dniówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: dia-homem
• Romanian: zi de lucru f (formally)
• Russian: человеко-день (ru) (čeloveko-denʹ)