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