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man hour
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun man hour has 1 sense
- man hour(n = noun.time) person hour - a time unit used in industry for measuring work; Array is a part of workday, working day
is a kind of 60 minutes, hour, hr
CIDE DICTIONARY
man hour, n.
The quantity of work which one person can perform in one hour; -- often an estimate made for the purpose of deciding whether to undertake a project, and sometimes used in accounting; as, it will take a hundred man-hours to write the program. [PJC]
THESAURUS
man hour
abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, term, trimester, twelvemonth, week, weekday, year
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