person-day

English

Etymology

From person +‎ day.

Noun

person-day (plural person-days)

1. One person's working time for a day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.

   Synonym: man-day

   Holonyms: person-month, man-month; < person-year, man-year

   Meronyms: man-hour, person-hour

Related terms

• day man

 

Translations

Translations

• French: jour-personne (fr) m, jour-homme (fr) m, homme-jour m
• Spanish: día-hombre m

References

• « jour-personne » in the Banque de dépannage linguistique, OQLF → voir en ligne