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girl-hours

girl-hours is the plural of girl-hour.

Meaning of girl-hour

Noun

girl-hour (plural girl-hours)

  1. (historical) A unit of computing power in the context of 1940s–1970s technology equal to one female worker working for one hour, for example, writing code or entering data to punch cards.
    • THEN by adopting automatic cartoning machine, productivity per girl-hour was increased by one-third.1950, Food Engineering, volume 22, Chilton Company, page 56

Questions about girl-hours

What is girl-hours the plural of?
Girl-hours is the plural of girl-hour.

Words near girl-hours in the dictionary

  1. girl-crushes
  2. girl-friend
  3. girl-friendly
  4. girl-friends
  5. girl-hour
  6. girl-hours
  7. girl-mode
  8. girlballs
  9. girlband
  10. girlbands
  11. girlboss

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