Ten workers for two days—that's 160 man-hours.
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Man-hour
//mænˈaʊə//
Synonyms for "man-hour" (23 found)
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Translations
16 translations across 14 languages.
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 工時 /工时 noun (amount of work)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 工時 /工时 noun (amount of work)
Czech
1 entries- člověkohodina noun (amount of work)
Danish
2 entries- mandetime noun (amount of work)
- mandtime noun (amount of work)
Dutch
1 entries- manuur noun (amount of work)
Finnish
1 entries- henkilötyötunti noun (amount of work)
French
1 entries- heure-homme noun (amount of work)
German
1 entries- Arbeitsstunde noun (amount of work)
Greek
1 entries- ανθρωποώρα noun (amount of work)
Polish
2 entries- osobogodzina noun (amount of work)
- roboczogodzina noun (amount of work)
Russian
1 entries- рабо́чий час noun (amount of work)
Spanish
1 entries- hora hombre noun (amount of work)
Swedish
1 entries- mantimme noun (amount of work)
Ukrainian
1 entries- робо́чий час noun (amount of work)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
[...] every man has tools and amenities always within one minute's walk; thus non-productive man-hours are kept to a minimum.
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Since 1950 our agricultural output per man-hour has actually doubled!
Source: wiktionary
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