Man-month

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.

    "Holonyms: man-year, person-year"

  2. 2
    one person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task. wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
person-month

Example

More examples

"Holonyms: man-year, person-year"

Etymology

Compound of man + month, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., pack-years, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X men working during Y months = X × Y = Z man-months.

More for "man-month"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.