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man-hour

man-hour
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [man ouuh r, ou-er]
    • /mæn aʊər, ˈaʊ ər/
    • /mæn ˈaʊə(r)/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [man ouuh r, ou-er]
    • /mæn aʊər, ˈaʊ ər/

Definitions of man-hour word

  • noun man-hour a man who is honored by a group. 1
  • noun man-hour a man who is currently the most important or most admired. 1
  • countable noun man-hour 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. 0
  • noun man-hour a unit for measuring work in industry, equal to the work done by one man in one hour 0
  • noun man-hour an industrial time unit equal to one hour of work done by one person 0

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Origin of man-hour

First appearance:

before 1915
One of the 14% newest English words
First recorded in 1915-20

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Parts of speech for Man-hour

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

man-hour popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 43% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 50% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

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