man-hour
[man-ouuh r, -ou-er]
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noun
a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work accomplished by one person in an hour. Abbreviation: man-hr
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Origin of man-hour
First recorded in 1915–20
man of the hour
noun
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Historical Examples of man-hour
One man-hour of idle time to be charged into the cost figure of the antigrav unit.
Sense from Thought DivideMark Irvin Clifton
The man-hour plan requires the hours worked to be recorded and footed in addition to the labor cost.
(a) The inability to fix a standard for the efficiency of the labor lays the man-hour rate open to criticism.
(b) The man-hour rate requires that the hours worked be carefully recorded and totaled, as well as the cost.
man-hour
noun
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