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.

   • Hmm, ten workers for two days... That's 160 man-hours.

   • 1962, John F. Kennedy, 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), 工时 (gung¹ si⁴)

  Mandarin: 工時／工时 (zh) (gōngshí), 工时 (zh) (gōngshí)

• Czech: člověkohodina (cs) f
• Danish: mandetime c, mandtime c (uncommon)
• Dutch: manuur (nl) n
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• Finnish: henkilötyötunti
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: ανθρωποώρα (el) f (anthropoóra)
• Polish: osobogodzina f
• Spanish: hora hombre f
• Swedish: mantimme c

See also

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