man-month
man-month · man-months
One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how…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.
Meaning
1 sensesOne 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
Meronyms: man-hour, person-hour < man day, person-day
Translations
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Compound of man + month, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., pack-years, newCompound 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.
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Forms
plural: man-months| Singular | man-month |
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