man-hour

See also: manhour

English

Alternative forms

• manhour

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

amount of work

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 工時／工时 (gung¹ si⁴)

  Mandarin: 工時／工时 (zh) (gōngshí)

• Czech: člověkohodina (cs) f
• Danish: mandetime c, mandtime c (uncommon)
• Dutch: manuur (nl) n
• Finnish: henkilötyötunti
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Arbeitsstunde (de) f
• Greek: ανθρωποώρα (el) f (anthropoóra)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: osobogodzina f
• Russian: рабо́чий час m (rabóčij čas)
• Spanish: hora hombre f
• Swedish: mantimme c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: робо́чий час m (robóčyj čas)

See also

• girl-hour
• man-day
• man-month
• man-year
• manshift