person-day
One person's working time for a day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much…One person's working time for a day, 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 day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
Holonyms: person-month, man-month < person-year, man-year
Meronyms: person-hour, man-hour
Personentag
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Compound of person + day, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., ton-miles, newCompound of person + day, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., ton-miles, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X persons working during Y days = X × Y = Z person-days.
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Forms
plural: person-days| Singular | person-day |
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