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man-hour

Syllables: man·hour/mænˈaʊə/US/mænˈaʊɚ/

man-hour noun: synonym of person-hour.

Noun

man-hour (plural man-hours)

  1. Synonym of person-hour.
    • Ten workers for two days—that's 160 man-hours.
    • [...] every man has tools and amenities always within one minute's walk; thus non-productive man-hours are kept to a minimum.1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766
    Synonyms:
    person-hour

man-hour meaning in Tamil

man-hour in Tamil

மன்மணி அலகு

Synonyms of man-hour

Forms of man-hour

pluralman-hours
alternative formmanhour

Origin of man-hour

From man + hour.

Questions about man-hour

What does man-hour mean?
Man-hour means synonym of person-hour.
What is man-hour in Tamil?
Man-hour in Tamil is மன்மணி அலகு. See Man-hour meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is man-hour?
Man-hour is a noun.
How do you pronounce man-hour?
Man-hour is pronounced /mænˈaʊə/ (UK).
What is the plural of man-hour?
The plural of man-hour is man-hours.

Words near man-hour in the dictionary

  1. man-hauled
  2. man-hauling
  3. man-hauls
  4. man-hole
  5. man-holes
  6. man-hour
  7. man-hours
  8. man-in-the-browser
  9. man-in-the-middle attack
  10. man-in-the-middle attacks
  11. man-killer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: man-hour (page history and authors); man-hour (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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