MAN-HOUR


Meaning of MAN-HOUR in English

( man-hours)

A man-hour is the average amount of work that one person can do in an hour. Man-hours are used to estimate how long jobs take, or how many people are needed to do a job in a particular time.

The restoration took almost 4,000 man-hours over four years.

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