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man hour

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n.1.The quantity of work which one person can perform in one hour; - often an estimate made for the purpose of deciding whether to undertake a project, and sometimes used in accounting; as, it will take a hundred man-hours to write the program.
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Noun1.man hour - a time unit used in industry for measuring workman hour - a time unit used in industry for measuring work
person hour
workday, working day - the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage; "they work an 8-hour day"
60 minutes, hour, hr - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"
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