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MAN HOUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does man hour mean?
• MAN HOUR (noun)
The noun MAN HOUR has 1 sense:
1. a time unit used in industry for measuring work
Familiarity information: MAN HOUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A time unit used in industry for measuring work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
man hour; person hour
Hypernyms ("man hour" is a kind of...):
60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)
Holonyms ("man hour" is a part of...):
workday; working day (the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage)
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