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MAN HOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A time unit used in industry for measuring work
Synonyms:
man hour; person hour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
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)