man-month
man-month noun: one person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
Noun
man-month (plural man-months)
- One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
- Holonyms: man-year, person-year
- Meronyms: man-hour, person-hour < man day, person-day
- Synonyms:
- person-month
Synonyms of man-month
Forms of man-month
| plural | man-months |
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Origin of man-month
Compound of man + month, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., pack-years, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X men working during Y months = X × Y = Z man-months.
Questions about man-month
- What does man-month mean?
- Man-month means one person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
- What part of speech is man-month?
- Man-month is a noun.
- What is the plural of man-month?
- The plural of man-month is man-months.
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